Word: pinkly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wheat trading pits a "pink ticket" is the receipt for grain purchased but undelivered...
...Berlin it is sometimes popularly supposed that the titanic rivals in U. S. finance are J. P. Morgan & Co. and Dillon, Read & Co. Last week, pink-cheeked, socialistic, optimistic Finance Minister Rudolf Hilfer ding found himself short of cash for year-end budget requirements. He hastily sought to arrange an $100,000,000 loan with Dillon, Read & Co. by cable...
Michael and Mary. A. A. Milne is an inveterate romancer and everything he writes he invests with storybook sweetnesses which delight some people, make others feel bilious. The intrusion of severe ethical concerns into Mr. Milne's pink and downy world would be as incongruous as the speculations of Kant in the mouth of a Fauntleroy. Yet that is what occurs in his newest play...
Last week the new Almanach bore as a frontispiece the round olive face of fat King Fuad I of Egypt. Backed by the government of Great Britain, to whose Sovereign he has been sending presents of pink preserved milk (TIME, Dec. 16), Frontispiece Fuad has an excellent chance of retaining his throne at least until the next issue of the Almanach...
...public might gaze once more upon some of the oldtime heraldry of Imperial Germany. The hall blazed with medals and the bright colors of bygone dress uniforms ? the blue and red of the infantry, the blue and gold of the navy, the white, green, black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks, his dry, jockeylike figure erect as ever despite its years. The long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man?whom he had tutored...