Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Savidge testified before the Extraordinary Tribunal, appraising reporters scribbled: "pretty . . . dressed in black with canary colored ribbons at her throat . . . light brown hair . . . pink-and-white complexion . . . looked like a schoolgirl of sixteen . . . slight cockney accent . . . provoked laughter with some of her naive replies, but she herself did not laugh . . . thanked the usher when she handed her a glass of water and smelling salts ... sat playing with the stopper as counsel continued their questions...
Inspector Collins denied that he had threatened, admitted that he had called Miss Savidge "Irene," said that she had asked for cigarets herself, swore that she had voluntarily stood up to show her pink petticoat, and denied asking Miss Savidge if she had ever...
...told that without being asked at all, she stood up before these two police officers*. . . saying that she had been sitting in the park within three or four inches of a man with her skirts above her knees, with pink petticoats, and presumably flesh-colored stockings...
Rhymster Parker has a reputation for brittle cynicism, ingenious parlor games, and Enough Rope, last year's best selling book of verse. This year's is more of the same, gleaned from the original settings-mostly smart or pink magazines, but also the Yale Review...
Despatches from Pottsville, Pa., indicate that another anthracite company is experimenting with a dye to make its coal pink...