Word: pinkish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small exhibition at the Neumann-Willard Gallery (24 carefully selected pieces) combined old art and new with almost no jolts. A 15th-Century Christ in the Temple failed to clash with Marc Chagall's pinkish fantasy, Flowers in a Dream, Max Beckmann's strong modern Landscape with Factory or Clemente Orozco's un-Orozcolike The "El" Station...
...match for them. Never accustomed hitherto to showing their latest models to the vulgar public, they have created for the Exposition dresses too breathtakingly extreme, fantastic and sumptuous to be worn by one woman in a million, show them mostly on featureless-faced mannequins rough-hewn of pinkish beige plaster, some as disproportioned as surrealism. Barely practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic horse and an heraldic lion. Rebel Schiaparelli, outdoing even this, has flung...
...presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada has no radical organization in its entire 110,000 square miles. There is no political movement of even slightly pinkish tinge. . . . The law-makers are cattlemen, miners, lawyers, business and professional men and there hasn't been the slightest whisper of radicalism from one of them...
...hard to resist a conclusion that you are in favor of trade unions when they are already strong and can beat you in a fair fight, but opposed to them when you think they are crushable." No news is one more attack on Publisher Hearst by the pinkish New Republic. But Editor Bliven's was only one of many voices that have lately been raised against the Nation's most prominent publisher...
...room in Manhattan's swank Wildenstein Galleries six statues went on view this week. All were formalized, slickly modeled, carved from most expensive materials. One female torso had been executed in rose Milan marble, a pinkish metallic veined stone so rare that it may no longer be exported from Italy. Averaging $5,000 apiece in price, all were the work of suave, spectacled Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski. At the same time word came from Paris that the Ministry of Fine Arts had decided to invest French taxpayers' money in two Lovet-Lorski pieces: a bronze nude...