Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shabby. Well does Counsel Seabury, who dresses sombrely, almost clerically, know this. When Lawyer Untermyer was defending District Attorney Grain last spring, on the first morning of the trial, Counsel Seabury and his young assistants marched into the courtroom tricked out in morning coats, with sponge-bag trousers and pink carnations, looking like the groomsmen of a wedding party...
Across the street from the Temple of Light is the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, a convivial organization which occupies the basement of Architect Benjamin Howard Marshall's gay pink house. So quietly, bothering no one, does Baha'i meet, that last week's celebration of the Bab's martyrdom (with readings and prayers led by Mrs. Corrine True of Wilmette) went quite unnoticed by the yachtsmen...
...which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump soprano daughter of Tyrant Gessler, and Giovanni Martinelli as her lover Arnold, heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon be tanned dark beneath her pink & white makeup, for each year she takes a house near the lake, spends long days swimming. Soon other Ravinia favorites will appear in the season's two remaining novelties: Soprano Lucrezia Bori and Tenor Edward Johnson in Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, and tall, dark French Soprano Yvonne...
...John stood pale blue pilasters around the ballroom, hung it with coral pink curtains, placed above the dancers an oval blue sky with dancing white stars. Edmund Dulac did the smoking room, "Cathay Lounge." with a silver ceiling, panels of black & silver glass, accents of Chinese red lacquer and Macassar ebony...
Last week the War Policies Commission, chairmanned by dapper, pink-cheeked Secretary of War Hurley, concluded its public hearings, prepared to write a report for the President. Created by Congress, it had heard many a witness, some with ideas, more without, on how to take the profit out of war. No proposal had gained more attention or stirred more discussion than that of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Wartime head of the War Industries Board, for "freezing" all prices by presidential proclamation at the outbreak of War (TIME, May 25). At the Commission's closing session Mr. Baruch reappeared to answer...