Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Washington, the Premier went on a week-long whirl through New York, Philadelphia. Detroit and Chicago (Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino was going to San Francisco and Los Angeles). In Manhattan, where Scelba was welcomed by a cheering crowd, eager greeters pumped his hands and bussed his glowing pink cheeks. Some excavation workers called out: "Hi Mario! Paesan!" In two garment factories Italian-American seamstresses welcomed him with kisses, songs, dances and sentimental weeping. Amidst all the emotion Scelba shed a happy tear or two himself...
...their colleagues. And there is the equal danger that the celebrities will grow too big for their professorial britches. Dr. Baxter, 59, recognizes that he has to be periodically cut down to size by his wife and daughter, who now greet him with "Here comes that pudgy, tweedy, twinkling, pink, bald bunch of enthusiasm." One of his wife's comments may be even more pertinent: "Thank God this didn't happen to you 30 years...
Personality & Private Life. Married, and the father of a daughter, he moved recently from his modest four-room apartment to the ornate Renaissance Premier's palace, Villa Madama. Pink-cheeked Premier Scelba likes good food and good wine, seldom smokes. Courteous, canasta-playing, flower-loving, he has a lawyer's respect for the letter and spirit of the law. When a high-placed Roman tried to get a government job for a friend, Scelba replied with icy politeness: "Dear Count, with full respect I must beg you to consider that I cannot take any account of your recommendation...
...year-old Walter Francis White, the Atlanta race riots of 1906 (described later in his autobiography), were more than a horrifying sight. But for the fact that he was blond and pink-cheeked, White might have been the victim of the mob himself. Yet from that dreadful day on, he elected to remain, fiercely and proudly, a member of the Negro race...
...such a fine show that Socialist Arthur Woodburn arose and put a final, respectful question: "After the Prime Minister's performance today, where did the Conservative Party get the idea that he is too old to do the job?" Amid applause, tributes and cheers, Sir Winston, flushed pink with his mental and physical gymnastics and looking amazingly boyish, bowed courteously. Next he made off for his parliamentary constituency of 30 years, Woodford, to make a speech that teased some more. "Thirty years is a long time," said he, spacing his words for impact, "but I have every hope...