Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closely followed by Captain A. E. French '29, swathed in delicate nile green with an under robe of pink. Captain French, swinging his arms like the wings of a bird, ran lightly forward on his toes. As he circled the altar he chanted "Spring, Spring, Spring. I am the Spirit of Spring." The line candidates as a chorus then marched in under the direction of their vigilant tutors and a brief dance by a pony chorus of the kicking squad followed...
Last week a correspondent of the Pittsburgh Press had to report a happening in the coalfields near Sharon, Pa. From the stereotyped "slayer" headline slapped on in the office, from the position given the item on the Press' pink-page, it was difficult to tell whether Editor J. Y. Chidester of the Press appreciated how hideous an event had actually taken-place or with what powerful, self-controlled simplicity the correspondent had done his duty when he wrote the following...
...their clothing and valuables one night last week before the train reached Atlanta, Ga. They suspected a young couple who got off at Atlanta next morning, rushed into the passenger station after them, had them arrested. Negro baggagemen were amazed that white folk should wear blue pajamas and pink negligees in a public place in broad daylight...
...power stepped, last week, the first so-called "Labor" Cabinet of Norway, a group of Socialist and Communist statesmen whose political complexions are if not red extremely pink. Their first act was to propose that military training shall be abandoned this year, and that the State shall undertake a national monopoly to buy and distribute grain. Has Norway then "gone Red?" To know her people is to understand how laughable is such a suggestion...
...elections of last Fall, they have been given an opportunity, which flowered last week, of expounding and testing their theories from the part of Power. Cannily watching the situation and holding a salutary whip hand are a group of enlightened Conservatives who are adding to the 61 pink votes their own and thus giving the new Cabinet a slim majority. As Premier the pinks have put forward former Speaker of the Storting, Christopher Hornsrud, veteran of many a stormy debate...