Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While winter rowing does not serve to keep oarsmen in the pink of condition, it nevertheless affords the coach an opportunity to criticize and correct individual flaws in oarsmanship which would otherwise go unnoticed. "I want as many candidates for crews as possible." said Coach Whiteside. "Inexperienced Freshmen, in particular, should come out. Often a man who has never rowed before will show his ability during winter rowing; there has always been at least one man on the University eight each year who, when he came to Harvard, had never rowed before. Freshmen should come out, whether they have experience...
...strange chance a young lady of quality should happen upon a copy of the current Police Gazette ("the leading illustrated sporting journal in the world") she might glance casually at the photos of showgirls and boxers, wrinkle her nose over some of the advertisements, then in boredom toss the pink sheet aside...
...direction the Gazette became not only a famed arbiter and promoter of sporting events, but a sensational forerunner of today's tabloids. The No. 1 writer was Samuel A. Mackeever who, as "Paul Prowler" and "The Old Rounder," showed the way for modern broadway colyumists. In its new pink dress, with full page drawings of dashing males cavorting with broad-hipped, big-bosomed females, the Gazette reached close to 400,000 circulation, brought its owner nearly $3,000,000. (At his death, November 1922, Publisher Fox's estate was valued at more than...
Backed by a strong Socialist-Centrist coalition, the Prime Minister stood for being called names as long as human nature could, flushed pink, red, dark-red, finally purple. As the swine song still continued, however, his self control snapped...
...days of leisure mixed with archaic studies; a temple of wit & learning, the bright fane of Anglo-Saxon civilization. Seldom does one of its paragons emerge actually to be seen and heard, but last week Princeton undergraduates had the privilege of observing and listening to the genuine Oxford article?pink-&-white, good-looking Randolph Churchill, 19, son of England's famed and effervescent Statesman Winston Churchill, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...