Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd but stood as though unobserved. The King, looking greatly improved, chatted briskly with the duke of Connaught. "P'incess Lilybet's" small, creamy elbows rested on the window ledge. Sober, fussy, coatless, were the Lascelles boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered in the window, a voice...
...first African port the beauty disembarks to spend a luxurious day in the tropics. The ship sails without her, on purpose. She fumes, rages, sobs?and a few weeks later is the contented concubine of a pink-lipped, glossy-black native prince...
Such men as J. P. Morgan the Elder, Henry Villard (capitalistic father of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the present Nation, pink weekly), Edward Dean Adams, Grosvenor P. Lowrey (patent attorney for Mr. Edison), Robert L. Cutting (Manhattan banker), Ernesto Fabbri (Italian-born Morgan partner) and his brother, Egisto Fabbri (shipping), S. B. Eaton (Manhattan lawyer), William H. Meadowcroft (Thomas Edison's confidential secretary), Jose D' Navarro (builder of Manhattan's first elevated railway), J. Hood Wright (Morgan partner) and Norvin Green (President of Western Union Telegraph) became actively interested in Inventor Edison's new project...
Published by famed Bernarr Macfadden (pink tabloid Graphic, lurid confessional magazines), the new daily - New York Daily Investment News - described itself as designed to "help the public understand Wall Street." When the Investment News was first announced (TIME, April 8), many a scoffer wondered how Publisher Macfadden, previously more interested in short skirts than in short selling, in swimming pools rather than in stock pools, could successfully turn to the Facts of Finance from the Facts of Life. Yet well was the transition made. There is no sex in the Investment News. There are no cosmographs. It is a tabloid...
...Freeland is owned by Walter J. Salmon, the realtor who built Manhattan's Salmon Tower. The Salmon silks are salmon pink. As winner of the Preakness, Mr. Salmon was presented by Gov. Ritchie with the bulky Woodlawn Vase won last year by Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Horseman Salmon touched the cup but did not take it away. It is customary to leave it at Pimlico. Mr. Salmon also received $53>325> which he pocketed...