Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fireworks and fineries laid out in her honor at every turn, Elizabeth dazzled her hosts with her own rarest jewels, including an emerald tiara intertwined with diamonds formerly owned by the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, wife of the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, and the famed 26-carat pink diamond from the mines of Tanganyika that was a wedding gift to Elizabeth. Beneath her glittering tiaras, the Queen's smile was invariably radiant. But perhaps the diplomatic device by which Elizabeth most thoroughly endeared herself to the exquisitely gowned ladies of Paris was to accept their curtsies...
They adored each other, aped each other ("twin costumes of silk and velvet . . . identical flowing black ties"). Their quarrels were fiendish. Their cook, looking out of the window at 2 a.m., might descry Mummy, "her pink nightgown streaming behind her, rushing headlong down 97th Street toward Madison, screaming: 'I'll throw myself under the first streetcar!' " One morning, when she appeared with arm in sling, her right eye bruised she explained grandly: "I stumbled over a champagne case in the dark...
...family, "Hoy! Whys donts you have someones who can talks your own language?" Neither Spiro nor the local hotel guide could quite grasp certain Anglo-Saxon eccentricities ("But Madame, what for you want a bathroom? Have you not got the sea?"). The Durrells were soon ensconced in a strawberry-pink hillside villa (the first of three), and after they began breakfasting under tangerine trees, bathing from crescent-shaped beaches that looked "like fallen moons" and exchanging the beautiful Greek greeting chairete (be happy) with their neighbors, the Durrells realized that they had fallen under the spell of the wine-dark...
...focus last week was on a pink-pated labor boss named Dave Beck, president of the 1,400,000-man Teamsters Union, who arrogantly refused to answer a Senate committee's questions about misconduct and misuse of union funds that overlay much more serious implications of abuse of power. As Beck ducked behind the Fifth Amendment, the Americans who writhed most were the other leaders of organized labor, who feared that what was going on and what was disclosed might give all of labor a bad name. "We are in Gethsemane," said one A.F.L.-C.I.O leader...
...best thing in the book is Low's shoptalk, e.g., his irritation with Churchill because a pink-and-sandy man cannot be properly rendered in black and white. The worst is an occasional resemblance to that dreary form of literature, the theatrical reminiscence. His pride rings out most clearly when he recounts how heads of state sent emissaries to his studio to ask for originals of his caricatures to decorate the walls of their vanity. This may help explain how the boy radical became a sort of licensed jester at the court of his political enemies. Even "Colonel Blimp...