Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night the singer met a novelist, pink-cheeked Carl Van Vechten. He now calls him "the Abraham Lincoln of Negro Art." He met and admired others: Muriel Draper partygoing in a window curtain; Colyumist Heywood Broun lying shirt-sleeved beside his bathtub of cocktails, to receive intelligentsia; Lady Oxford asking Gordon to Black Bottom after singing for royalty. He sang all over the U. S., heard deafening and perplexing applause. Now 36, he muses: "Ho! Ho! ... I wonder what I was born...
...husband Franz-remembered today as the venerable, majestic Emperor Franz Josef of Austria Hungary. "You must stop them from flogging your soldiers!" cried Elizabeth. To Franz Josef this was an astonishing, irrational request. For centuries Hungarian soldiers had been flogged "when delinquent." But on the spot, he humored his pink-cheeked, starry-eyed wife by signing a decree which has kept Hungarian soldiers from being flogged ever since. 1929. In Budapest last week Hungary's new War Minister Julius ("No Mattresses!") Goembos,* laid before Parliament a new, drastic military penal code restoring the penalty of flogging. The measure...
...Pink Run Loose Sirs: . . . frankly I doubt very much if I would care to invest the sum of $10 for a subscription, for you say "It all depends upon whether you agree with Philosopher John Dewey." Most assuredly I do not agree with John Dewey in some of his ideas. I knew him when he lived in Burlington and was in the University of Vermont, where I also graduated a few years later; I knew his brothers who were good fellows, but John Dewey, while a brilliant man in his line I am sure, does not appeal to me after...
...Gray, not "gay" was John Peel's coat. A simple fellside hunter, he never wore "pink...
Another scrimmage session is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in which all members of the varsity squad will participate. Every man is expected to be available for the game Saturday, and A1 Marsters, who last year was handicapped by a weak ankle, is expected to be in the pink of condition...