Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tatt" (Richard Tattersall) may well have turned in his grave last week. When he founded in 1766 what has become "Tatter-sail's," the most famous horse race betting ring in England, no such pink, blue and green tickets had been thought of as were sold by "bookies" throughout Britain for the first time last week...
...stud groom to business partner of 'is Majesty George IV*. . . . I've seen a good bit I 'ave! But I never thought to see the day when a bloody bettin' tax 'ud be collected at Tattersall's by the sellin' o' pink tickets...
Squatted in teepees, wagons, automobiles, or lounging through the streets of Lawrence, were many famed chiefs and their followers- Chief Bacon Rind and his Osages, John Quapaw, and his Quapaws, White Buffalo (with pink ribbons in his albino locks) and his Cheyennes; many a Comanche, Arapahoe, Creek, Sioux, Winnebago, Ute, Pueblo, Navajo-all to the number of 1,500. Despite the intellectual salutation of Mr. White Calf, the assemblage did not have the air of a racial group gathered around their school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing...
...pink rosebud, sent by President Coolidge by special messenger, was pinned to the coat of Detective Sergeant Arthur B. Scrivener as he was lowered into his grave at Winchester, Va. Sergeant Scrivener was shot by an unknown assassin in Washington a fortnight ago, on the day before he was to have been married...
When the public goes to a repertory theatre it knows what it's in for, and it shouldn't squeal. If it gets more than its money's worth, it goes home in a pink haze of pleasure. If it achieves no more than a notion of the excellence of a great play, the price of admission may be written on its budget as Educational...