Word: pinkness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from the tavern to the nursery has never been quite clear, except that in the 17th and 18th centuries adults were far less squeamish about what was fit for children's ears than they are today. (Later, of course, many of the songs were expurgated and tied with pink and blue ribbons.) Often as not, nursery-rhyme characters were said to have had real counterparts, ranging from stern deans (Dr. Fell) to crooked stewards (Jack Horner) to lovely chippies (Alice, or Elsie, Marley). Everyone knows that my pretty maid said: "I'm going a-milking...
...Spangled Banner floated up from the tomb, mingling with the faint purr of a jet airplane, invisible in the sky above. Facing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the panorama of Washington beyond it stood a white-haired old man in a black Chesterfield coat. His face was pink, and in his right hand he held a black felt hat over his heart. As the anthem ended, Herbert Hoover, 81, stepped forward to meet an Army sergeant holding a large wreath of yellow chrysanthemums. He took the flowers and firmly laid them against the tomb, directly under the inscription...
...newswolf in house guest's clothing, Britain's deep pink Cedric Belfrage, deported from the U.S. (TIME, May 25, 1953) but still editor of the fellow-traveling U.S. weekly National Guardian, recently visited the Swiss home of another exile from the U.S., veteran (66) Cine-comedian Charlie Chaplin, an ex-resident of Hollywood since 1952. The two Britons chatted candidly and parted amicably. Last week, however, Belfrage, without leave from Leftist Chaplin, tattled on Charlie in the Guardian. According to Belfrage, Chaplin now detests America, his homeland for some 40 years. Chaplin was quoted as saying...
Symphony, he paces about his penthouse with lips clamped in the expression of the well-known bust in the music room; but somehow, with his fluttery dimples and impetuous curls, he looks rather more like a pink plastic dolly with built-in colic...
...prominent and distinguished Cantabridgians formed a reform organization called the CCA. It promulgated many interesting plans, surveys, studies, etc., usually during election years, some of which were later implemented. Its first political victory was won with the aid of obliging landlords, many of them absentee landlords, who inserted pink slips with their rent bills warning tenants that their rents would increase greatly if the CCA slate were not elected...