Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragedy occurred. A lookout peering from the Capo Nord's mast saw or thought he saw a woman floating. Whatever the lookout saw vanished before the Capo Nord could be stopped. Search again proved fruitless. The lookout said: "I distinctly saw a bobbed-haired woman in a pink garment...
...Giggleswick little boys know that Scotland Yard has been rocked by scandalous exposures (TIME, July 16) and that the weighty War prestige of Lord Byng is counted on to steady matters down. Especially do naughty little Giggleswickers know about Miss Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused the scandal to break. With a rousing, boyish cheer the Giggleswickers greeted great Viscount Byng of Vimy. At 65 some men have grown a little old, querulous and malapropian but Hero Byng would speak inspiring words. Soon his address...
Lost: Jewel Case, pink leather; believe left in taxi, picked up at French Line pier and dismissed at Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Tuesday about noon; reward. See Cashier, Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
Though the 289 Mayors steamed with wrath and sweated in the July heat, not a drop of perspiration stood forth upon the bald, pink cranium of Ignaz Seipel. Did they realize, he rapped sternly, that he had only just patched up the break in Austro-Italian relations which occurred when an Austrian mob stormed the Italian consulate at Innsbruck (TIME, June 4), resulting in the recall of the Italian Minister from Vienna. Were they conscious that not until last fortnight did Italian Minister Giacinto Auriti return to Vienna. Under the circumstances, and considering the relative potencies of militant Italy...
Kings and Dictators are never surprised. Neither would have turned a hair had they seen President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic standing on the other side of the Franco-Spanish border, which bisects the Tunnel. Indeed they did see M. Le President standing there, plump and pink, and wearing a monocle, which he has recently and surprisingly adapted into his ensemble...