Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if a boy, the babe would still have received a sword, its significance being "to ward off evil." Being a girl, the pink babe was also presented with a purple skirt, "emblematic of femininity." She was then turned over to her two wet nurses, wives of army officers. Diligent, they have been studying Yamato Kotoba, the special court language, for months, will be able to address the suckling princess properly...
...Lynn, Mass., Lois Taylor, 3, went out to play, garbed in felt hat, pink silk dress, scarf, and underwear, new shoes and rubbers. At midnight she returned in an old red sweater, red hat, dirty old shoes. Her pretty curls had been hacked away. Horrified, her mother told the police. Their discovery: Lois had played "house" with another little girl, had lent verisimilitude to her rôle of "father" by changing her clothes, cutting her locks...
...Publisher Conde Nast who recently gave him an exclusive contract for written articles, reproduction rights to all photographs. Mr. Nast made Photographer Beaton a present of a new, expensive camera, "which he grudgingly uses, still clinging to his Kodak whenever possible. Lately Cecil Beaton published an elegant pink-&-white quarto entitled The Book of Beauty, reproducing many of his more successful portraits of British and U. S. beauties, accompanied by brittle little pen-&-ink sketches and paragraphs. The Beaton method apparently is to make a highly nattering photograph of a lovely lady in an exotic attitude: lying on her back...
...assembly. Bermuda's last governor was Lieut. General Sir Louis Jean Bols, who died four months ago. London politicians were still debating his successor last week. The tourist's first, most vivid impressions of Bermuda are white roofs and bicycles. Bermudian houses, particularly the newer ones, are pink, white, green, yellow, blue, but their roofs, even those on the Anglican Cathedral at Hamilton are uniformly of brilliant white limestone coral. Reason: there are no potable wells on the islands; all drinking water is rain water, collected in cisterns from the unpainted roofs. Fortunately it rains nearly every...
...primary purpose of the system is for communication between planes in flight and the ground stations nearest them en route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto, Calif. As high-school students during the War they had "ham" (amateur) radio stations in their houses, would shout excitedly across the street to verify what signals they could pick...