Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pink carnations, maidenhair ferns, golden candlesticks, 50 empty chairs were seen in the state dining salon of the White House. Soon, and promptly, the chairs were occupied, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge had opened the official Washington social season with the annual Cabinet dinner. Among those present were Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, the Cabinet members and their wives, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, and a few favored guests from Washington, New York, Boston, such as Bruce Barton, advertising man, writer of books on the Bible and Jesus; Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg, famed zoologist; Mortimer L. Schiff, potent Manhattan...
...businessman than politician. At home, people know him best as the able manager of the municipal utilities. He says little, admires Roosevelt, wants a low tariff. It was once said: "On the color scale Colonel Brookhart [see below] registers a near-red, while Mr. Howell appears only a pale pink...
...garters off and models mean girlies, but the girlies don't mean anything. The only chance for a thriller in all this respectability is lost when you discover that these before mentioned models are all done up in muslin and that their bare backs are strung across with pink and white ribbons. Well, anyway, these partners get sorer and sorer at one another until they resolve to split the business. Their lawyer-proposes a poker game, the partners play and brother Johns loses to brother Nettleton. By the contract, Johns becomes Nettleton's butler for one year, paying...
Majestic--Artists and Models--8.15 o'clock--The Edition de Paris in pink tights...
...Pink tickets, and green and blue, were sold none the less last week under the new betting tax law, drafted by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill (TIME, May 3). On the first day that the tickets were issued "bookies" at Tattersall's sold them as souvenirs. On the third day Tattersall's bookies struck, refused to accept bets, and since Tattersall's odds are the basis of odds throughout Britain, brought British betting to a temporary standstill...