Word: pinkish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrice it came, and the distant corner of the room, illuminated only by the firelight, glowed with a greenish phosphorescence. Startled, the Vagabond discerned a figure standing there, limned in the faint, emerald light. Its coat was of gabardine, its trousers of flannel, from its eyes came the pinkish reflection of the midnight oil, on its checks were shadowed the black pouches of overwork. Before the figure stood a woman: "Why, then, 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. What need we fear, who knows it?" With these words she vanished. The gabardined figure shrank. In her place there...
...film art." the Society initiated a trend which is the cinema equivalent of the Little Theatre movement. Already it has a lusty rival: the Film Forum, headed by Playwright Sidney Howard, which last fortnight gave as its first presentation the German picture M, directed by Fritz Lang. Vaguely pinkish in political tone, the Film Forum hopes to use a profit from its admission rate of $5 for six pictures, for producing "documentary" films...
...fangs, the bush master carries enough venom to kill a man in less than five minutes. (Dr. Ditmars once saw a companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word that seven had been killed near Panama's Chagres River...
Second prize ($1,500) went to Russian-born William Zorach for a monumental piece of sculpture entitled "Mother and Child." Three years ago Sculptor Zorach toured Spain looking for objets d'art. He found a two-ton block of pinkish blue grained marble which he ordered shipped immediately to his studio in Maine. Sculptor Zorach, who is .an apostle of "taille direct" in sculpture, pecked at his block for 18 months and produced the forceful, serene group that won the admiration of New York last winter, won $1.500 in Chicago last week...
...With his face burned a pinkish red by sun and sea wind, President Hoover returned to the White House from reviewing the U. S. fleet off the Virginia Capes. Aboard his reviewing ship, the U. S. S. Salt Lake City, the President had clambered up and down steel ladders, poked in and out of gun turrets, inspected the officers & crew, thoroughly enjoyed himself...