Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week at the little (pop. 2,560) farming town of Dawson Springs, Ky., the 57th annual trials of the National Foxhunters Association were held with some 900 of the country's top foxhounds in competition. The unspeakables were an oddly assorted group ranging from pink-coated riders to gallused mountaineers. The uneatables were the sly red foxes that abound in the region. The full pursuit was a well-organized chase, not necessarily to catch the fox, but to find out which hound could best stand the gaff of the rugged, three-day test...
...American hospitality, concluded Oxonian Robinson, "I raise a foaming mug of pink ice-cream in ginger-beer (the national beverage) and pledge my sincere gratitude. But a Bronx cheer for the neons, the nylons, and the nut-melbas-each one of the Twenty-Eight Flavours-and Odo-ro-no, Times Square, the subways, the Empire State, drugstores, candy and campuses ... O Lord...
Winston Churchill took a flying trip to the Newmarket races, watched his four-year-old Colonist II carry the Churchill pink-and-chocolate silks past the post for his eighth win this year and total purses...
...therefore no great surprise, either, when Pauline beat Gussie, 6-0, 6-3, in a 33-minute opener at the Garden. The only real departure from the advance script was that Pauline, wearing dazzling silver lame shorts and a shocking-pink sweater, nat only gave Gussie (in white pique) a tennis lesson but out-dressed her as well...
...Last week Gugel was dabbing away at an elevator set up on the terrace of his studio overlooking the Roman Forum. A well-heeled countess named Anna Maria Cicogna takes Gugel's art seriously enough to have offered him $1,600 to decorate the elevator for a new pink marble palace she is building in Venice...