Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mabel Normand, famed cinema beauty: "Fire swept a group of buildings in the rear of my Los Angeles home. Roused from sleep, I rushed out, beseeched the firemen to save my limousine from its blazing garage. Said the newspapers: 'Mabel's pink pajamas hampered the rescue work, because the crowd that turned out got in the firemen's way to get a peek at Mabel...
...touch of green, rising from lawn to treetop beneath a little pink spire, where three high roads cross, marks the spot where English begins to be spoken as one walks west from the lower East side of Manhattan: St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie...
Said one Dr. T. H. Corkery in a report to the Devon Education Committee : "The rural child has lost its heritage to the child bred in the country. Formerly one pictured the country child with a chubby face, pink cheeks, bright eyes and sturdy figure. Now you find many of the children in country schools are pale-faced, anemic...
That chorus is the vital element of the show. All its girls appear quite talented, and are allowed an opportunity to imitate the principals, sometimes to the principals' benefit. Miss Dawn plays a violin cheerfully, as in the days of The Pink Lady, and vents her acting ability on several skits that besplatter the show. Author Paul Gerard Smith comes out of vaudeville with an itch to thrust satire at his audience. His travesties of The Hairy Ape, Ladies' Night and The Song and Dance Man will work no harm to Eugene O'Neill, Avery Hopwood and George M. Cohan...
...Rumanian Legation. The Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York were also present. Queen Marie, in a wondrous gown of gold brocade, stood at the head of the magnificant Legation staircase with her husband and received the guests. The Legation was smothered with roses and pink trimmings, pink being the favorite color of Queen Marie. At the banqueting table gold plate was used and the dishes were of valuable Sevres...