Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder at the mere thought of an intelligent foreigner shaking hard-won American institutions with the rude blasts of his opinions...
Quinn Martin?"A mystery melodrama in the pink of condition...
...fortnight ago to Michael Arlen, Armenian-English author arrived in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his The Green Flat and, ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...
...very old man, President Emeritus of a Massachusetts University, celebrated a fortnight ago his 92nd birthday. No enormous cake glistening with petals of pink fondant marked the occasion; no 92 candles shone in the old man's eyes, no speeches were made, no toasts drunk. On the contrary, this aged onetime University President passed the day reading, studying, strolling in the morning sunshine, answering his correspondence. Once the intimate friend of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Aldrich, Longfellow, he can still read with ease and operate a typewriter. In 1874, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, then working to perfect...
...these young men, thinking which is far afield from these supposed endeavors. Your Senior, if at all given to thinking, is already chafing under the hard task-master, the May examinations. He remembers that some of Harvard's finest "illustri"--Emerson, for example, and Thoreau keeping himself in the pink of condition waiting for something to turn up and Henry Adams with his cloquent disenchantment in his "Education", and Roosevelt, and John Reed, and Walter Lippman and a host of others--he remembers that these men were all given to an internal species of question and wonderment as to what...