Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...innocence and misdirected sense of adventure with which most boys & girls began: the New York hearing made it obvious that many started in the same spirit in which they might have tried a high dive, swallowed a goldfish or taken up a fad for wearing pink bobby socks. In many a school it was a badge of daring and popularity. One student wrote in a theme: "I know that there is about four ways you can take it. Smoking, liquid, injecting and sniffing a powder. I know some friends that use it so I thought I would...
Aniela, it develops, "was miraculous in the dark . . . Her great arms clutched about him in a frenzy. She made uncouth noises." Nevertheless David, "a brilliant young architect [who] had done a few big things bigly," is soon rolling in a snowbank with somebody else, "a pink avalanche of loveliness" named Mary. "There . . . with her sables and his great coat for blankets, David wooed a wintry Tsarina swathed in sables . . . The snow gave the deed the absolution of its own purity...
...problems were itchy and only skin-deep. Under his jauntiness, there had recently been a note of weariness. His physician, Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham, announced from the yacht that the President was in "swell shape." But the President had been troubled with a nasty head rash, which showed pink above his ears and caused him to reduce the frequency of his haircuts...
...times the young Baxter appears thoroughly ludicrous, but often, as when he sings love ballads, Willy--and that is just what he is most of the time--imagines marriage with his true puppy love, a vision enacted in full regalia. Bride, groom, and a score of bridesmaids attired in pink march under the spotlights to the front of the stage...
...pictures, the silent screen's Wallace Reid started men rushing to buy caps of their own. Clark Gable almost wrecked the sale of men's undershirts by appearing without one in 1934's It Happened One Night. Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne toasted each other with pink champagne in 1939's Love Affair, and the day after the Manhattan opening, romantic moviegoers snapped up Macy's whole stock of the stuff...