Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yalemen were way behind Harvardmen at gulping goldfish in the late '30s, but last week they were in the van of the latest undergraduate seizure: the Dirty Shirt Club. The idea is simple. Each club member puts up $10, takes turns at wearing the same unwashed pink cotton shirt for a day at a time. The man wearing the shirt the day it falls apart wins...
...more, says Sterling severely: "The articulation of the shoulder and the wrist lacks correctness. The legs, of excessive length, betray a mannerism such as David never exhibits in his portraits, and in no such degree as here even in his figure compositions. And when did [David] paint flesh as pink as this and as transparent...
...tact and horse sense, too-goes a long way to explain the rise of Southern Methodist University. Last week, already the biggest private university in the Southwest and still sprouting, S.M.U. proudly dedicated its newest shining wonder: a $3,500,000 school of theology, consisting of seven pink brick, Georgian-style buildings spread on 16 acres of the S.M.U. campus...
Eliot has scheduled its annual "Pink Elephant Ball" for March 10, and Kirkland holds a closed House formal on February 24 and an open informal "Seabreeze Dance" March...
...Pink-faced and wiry, with a sculptor's heavy hands, Kallio specializes in highly dramatic likenesses. Petrified history, not self-expression, is his province, and he commands it well. Last week he had completed a bust of Herbert Hoover, was rounding out his portraits of Alben Barkley ("a very kind man"); Warren Austin ("he lives by what he says"), and John L. Lewis ("a very strong...