Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born with an imperfectly closed spine (spina bifida) and paralyzed from the waist down, Clara Jo was promoting the Easter Seal drive of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. As he saw the little girl laboriously making her way into his office on heavy steel braces and pink crutches that matched her well-starched dress, the President uttered an involuntary gasp. He started toward the girl as if to pick her up and carry her to his desk, then checked himself and said in a firmly encouraging tone: "That's a good job, a very good...
...Hassam (1859-1935) began work as a magazine illustrator and made a good living at it. Three years in Paris opened his eyes to impressionism, and by 1889, when he came home to apply its viewpoint to the American scene, Americans were almost ready to accept the results. Plump, pink and tweedy, Hassam painted pictures that were pretty yet robust, like a small brass band playing in the park...
...Tomorrow makes womem melt their white lace collars and soak their pink handkerchiefs at the Astor. Susan Hayward gives a sensitive portrayal of the life of singer and ex-alcoholic Lillian Roth. Shows...
...Liliom, the play by Ferenc Molnar. What they liked about its flavor was the salt. U.S. theater goers did the same over Carousel, the musical that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein made from the play in 1945, but what they liked about its flavor was the sugar-the pretty pink icing of the plot, and most of all the sunny flowing honey of the lovely Rodgers tunes. The melodies have all their clovered freshness still, but if film fans lick their lips over anything else about this movie version of the Broadway musical, it will be because they...
...followed the voice into Mrs. Nate Parker's Body Mechanics class, one of Radcliffe's favorite ways of satisfying Physical Education requirements. We discovered a small room, whose pink walls were sprinkled with neuter anatomical charts that compensated in bulging muscles for what they lacked in personality. On the floor were ten silver-grey plastic mats, occupied by ten girls in neat white blouses and neat blue shorts. They were learning "The Art of Relaxation" and "The Correction of Posture Faults." We had missed the relaxing session that opens each class, but we had arrived in time for the metatarsal...