Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After nine months of marriage, Audie Murphy, 25, most decorated U.S. soldier of World War II, rookie cinemactor, author (To Hell and Back), and Wanda Hendrix, 20, cinemingénue (Ride the Pink Horse, Miss Tatlock's Millions), decided to try a separation. Said Wanda: "This isn't final. I hope it won't be. I don't want a divorce." Said Audie: "It's all my fault. She's done the best she could...
...Communist union weeklies have sometimes printed labor news that sounded as if it were right from the party line. They had little choice. The top labor news service, supplying 200 of the nation's 800 labor papers, was the pink-hued Federated Press. But last week a rival agency, with financial backing from several big A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions, was well under way in Washington. The new, non-political Labor Press Association had already signed up 193 clients, including such important papers as the C.I.O. News, the Machinist and the I.L.G.W.U.'s Justice...
...search will never cease For the girl on the Police Gazette. For the pretty young brunette On the pink Police Gazette...
Winston Churchill is the descendant of great nobles. Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, a quarter-century younger, is the descendant of Welsh coal miners. Both have a look of pink cherubic majesty; both are enormously effective speakers. In the four years of the Labor government Bevan and Churchill, who hate each other, had not been directly opposed as principals in a Commons debate...
When the Whitney opened its salmon-pink quarters on West Eighth Street in 1931, Mrs. Force continued to focus her attention on present-day U.S. artists, letting the older established museums fill in the historical background. Mrs. Whitney paid all the bills, left $2,500,000 to keep the museum going after her death in 1942. The Whitney never offered prizes, instead spent from $10,000 to $30,000 a year buying the pictures it liked. Up until her last illness, Juliana Force moved poker-backed and sharp-eyed among American artists, watching for someone who might make another Whitney...