Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin went Red last week. The rest of the nation swung toward Brown.* Everyone admitted, on the morning after, that Republican Germany's sixth election had been her biggest, most expensive, most hysterical. There has been no poll so startling since 1912. when German workmen went Pink for the first time, rebuked Kaiser Wilhelm with a thumping Socialist vote which the War Lord refused to heed...
...second the marching revolutionary troops sprang into action. Unlimbering their guns they raked the wedding fiesta, then, loyal to Provisional President Uriburu ("Idol of the Army"), they dashed for the nearby Plaza de Mayo (Government Square), eager to shoot up counter-revolutionaries who must be storming the Casa Rosada ("Pink House:" executive mansion...
...roof of the Pink House perched watchful machine gunners. To their officer the sound of shots in a side street, then a pell-mell rush of troops into the Square, could mean only one thing. Rat-rat-rat-rattled and spat the machine guns...
...Ballots Rule!" Meanwhile slim, wiry General Uriburu, by this time "Head of the Provisional Government." was orating from a balcony of the "Pink House": "Fellow countrymen, the Army . . . true to Democratic tradition . . . has performed its duty! . . . Now it is up to you to fulfill the mission begun by the National Army. The Saenz Pena electoral law has given you the most powerful arm of Democracy [voting by secret ballot]. . . . Let us now sheath our swords and let ballots rule...
...moving. The height of current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk of the man who came in and demanded a scarlet casket with scarlet lining...