Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Mary noses out into the Atlantic this week, it will be the first time she has ever sailed from New York in early April completely sold out. On Easter Sunday white excursion steamers chugged back into service on the Rhine. In Rome, as the Judas trees burst into pink bloom, tourists who broke traffic laws got only a printed warning-with the mayor's good wishes-to be good...
...India the Maharaja of Jaipur was in his pink palace in his pink city, ready to greet American tourists, treat them to elephant rides and put them up in his guest house. In France's Dijon, knowing the U.S. tourists' unquenchable thirst for cold drinks, the Terminus Hotel has achieved a master stroke of plumbing: faucets in every room dispense chilled red or white wine. In Rome, bartenders will stir up a martini molto secco at the drop of a 500 lira note; half a dozen short order restaurants are pushing Southern fried chicken and barbecued spare ribs...
...system of Alpha Aquilae. As it approaches the Planet Altair-4, it changes flux, reverses polarity, sits down gently as great hairy bolts of blue electricity spray out to cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole survivor of a party of colonists sent from Earth 20 years before, greets his visitors...
When the small Mamie cakes (topped with white icing, pink rosebuds and "Mamie" in pink icing) arrived, Mrs. John S. Doud warned her daughters (Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. George Gordon Moore) to save theirs for her great grandchildren. The First Lady laughingly defied her mother, told the head table "I love sweets" and munched away...
...rich, renowned and happily married hatter-"Lilly Dache from 9 to 5 and Mrs. [Jean] Despres from 5 to 9." Both personalities have contributed to this book, e.g., the chapter on hats is by Lilly, the pages on how to force a husband to wear a pink tuxedo...