Word: pinkish
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...Nanty Glo Journal had gone to press for the week. Publisher Herman Sedloff, musing in his doorway, watched a coal-dusty dog skirt a puddle, saw that the color in the Red Cross flag hanging above the middle of the street had run into a dripping, pinkish smear...
Lanny Budd, a sort of contemporary Renaissance Prince, is half-symbol, half-character. Pinkish, amiable, charming, and vaguely uneasy about his softness, he plays prince consort to his rich bride Irma, who in turn plays salonnière in a million-franc-per-year Parisian palace, and who is a comic-strip X-ray of heiress mentality...
...unsettled labor disputes, which had been hanging for months, were going to be disposed of at last. Second result was hearty applause from William Green and industry, silence that implied approval even from C. I. O. Third was the immediate resignation of some of the Board's assistants: pinkish Secretary Nathan Witt, Chief Administrative Examiner Alexander B. Hawes, Associate General Counsel Thomas I. Emerson...
...nowhere in Washington was the tension more concentrated than in the pinkish-brick British Embassy that stood on its hill below the Naval Observatory. And it was concentrated there on the calm, portly, six-foot figure of the British Ambassador, Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Karr), Marquess of Lothian, Baron Ker of Newbottle, and holder of five other hereditary titles which, come British victory or British defeat, were not likely to mean much in the future...
...kept the public roaring at his huge, paleolithic figures, whose potent brutality has shocked the prissy, angered the academic and given him the biggest headlines of any contemporary artist. Last year Sculptor Epstein produced his latest shocker, a three-ton, seven-foot, simian statue of Adam in pinkish alabaster, whose bull-bold virility made pulpits seethe, strong men blush and the public flock to look (TIME, June 19 et seq.). Exhibited by an enterprising purchaser as a side show at the English summer resort of Blackpool, Adam grossed some $250,000 from drop-jawed vacationists...