Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will always be a certain class which will scoff at such journals as The New Student and which will damn them with the stigma of being a pale pink rather than a blood red. And there are times when such a view is justified. As to this particular publication, however, the contrary holds true. In its sincerity and its very real sympathy for the high ideals for which colleges are striving. The New Student has shown itself a valuable addition to the ranks of constructive critics of modern pedagogies...
...generously from a box in Continental Hall. President Coolidge, no music-lover, did not attend the concert. ¶ Mrs. Coolidge, colorfully attired in a dark red suit, was guest of honor at a luncheon of the National Women's Press Club of Washington. For table decorations, she sent pink roses from the White House greenhouses. ¶ When invited to spend his summer vacation in Idaho, President Coolidge let it be known that he thought Idaho too far west. This limits his field. He is not going to pitch a tent in the middle of an Iowa cornfield...
...absence of reverence could be descried, stood before the three great mosques facing the Registan, mocking the commands of Mohammed by their shameless presence. Soon the venerable priesthood emerged rampant, the effect of their imprecations being enhanced by the fact that in Samarkand old men dye their beards pink with henna...
...Alexander Stirling Calder, Philadelphia born, has created his model pink with Dutch health. Her full face and bosom are redolent of Holland tulips. In her arm she holds a fat baby and in her other she grips a rifle. She is robust but beautiful...
Author Gorky introduces characteristic figures-the hunchback brother who tries to hang himself for hopeless love, later becoming a monk, then losing his faith; women of various shapes and sizes, uniformly brainless except Pyotr's mother-in-law, who became his father's mistress; a pink-faced carpenter, a philosophizing ancient and that creature as indispensable to a Russian novel as are bobbed hair and bachelors to the Saturday Evening Post-the village idiot. But Author Gorky's powers, however fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action...