Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, "Mauve is just pink trying to be purple...
Having elected to resurrect the people who saw the last century out,* Author Beer found that Painter Whistler had cracked out a title for him. "Mauve?" Whistler had mused. "Mauve is just pink trying1 to be purple...
...exterior of the Bowl is being beautified, scores of pink rambler rose bushes having been planted...
...took the guests to their seats. The President and his wife had one of the front pews. Mrs. Coolidge wore for the first time a gown of ecru lace over a black satin slip. The Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden were present, she wearing a gown of apricot pink crepe, with a skirt of self-colored lace. The only decorations in the chapel were six golden vases of lilies on the altar and white ribbons outlining the aisles...
...next scene was at the Pan American Building, whither 4,000 guests had been bidden to the reception. About half the number came. The rooms were bowers of flowers?pink hydrangeas, pink roses, larkspur, peonies, ferns, spruce. Disjecta membra of the Marine Band, in three sections of the building, played the wedding march from Tannhauser, as the bride and bridegroom entered and crossed the Aztec Garden and passed the reflecting pool on a carpet of scarlet velvet...