Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chubby, pink-fleshed Finance Minister Dr. Heinrich Koehler presented to the Reichstag, last week, his Budget for 1928-2Q. He spoke ably but to less than one third of the Deputies, the rest absenting themselves because the Budget details became fully known in the committee stage (TIME, Dec. 5). Balance is to be achieved at 9,502,700.000 marks, a figure higher by 367,500,000 marks than last year, but actually swollen not by extravagance but by the fact that Germany's reparations' burden rises during the coming year 750,000,000 marks to its final...
...heard him, but thought it was their roommate, just getting in: others heard him but were afraid to get out of bed. Not so with one daring student on the first floor. Hearing strange noises in the study he picked up a bedroom slipper and clad in his pink pajamas ventured from the sanctity of his Doudoir. He came fact to face with a slim, dark, foreign man with a strong breath and an unsteady gait. The latter said he was looking for the man in the suite next door whose available cash he had just appropriated. The youth...
...view of the situation. The general level of a universal standard for the national press would be kept higher by pressure of public opinion than the plane where much local journalism stands today. It is inconceivable that the tabloid sensationalism that washes down so many breakfasts now, or the pink and purple extravaganzas of Mr. Hearst should ever set the style for a nationwide press such as Mr. Villard imagines. If amalgamation will gloss over with a coat of standardized paint the more glaring sins of modern journalism, there is small reason to lament the passing of the multitude...
...knot of rustic, humble hillmen edged timidly, last week, through the massive gate of that onetime palace in which now resides M. Gaston Doumergue, the pink-complexioned, affable, astute bachelor President of France...
...public idols, the little blonde murderesses. After she has killed her man, Roxie is frightened for a few minutes. But what with the excitement of telling the reporters how she came to do it, the delights of seeing her name right up in big black letters on yellow or pink paper, the merry diversion of raising her skirt and eyebrows at the jury so that they will acquit her, she quite naturally forgets that she has committed a crime...