Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved out of his official residence, Guanabara Palace, and in for 60 hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. Last week U. S. servants at the Meyer mansion were informed that they must not ascend to the second floor, where the President-elect, dynamic, Rooseveltian, big-boned, occupied Mrs. Meyer's pink-draped bedroom. The Prestes' own Brazilian "man" served his master's frugal breakfasts ? with emphasis on large tumblers of iced orange juice, heaping plates of grapes, and, of course, rolls with Brazilian coffee...
Unfortunately the climax of our congratulations involves "Pink and White" whose family tree was so meticulously portrayed to the great melting pot. Only when a new-world brew settles into layers does it become interested in those of Ale and Stout. It then seems to limit its interest to the foam on the top. TIME therefore felt justified, or at least prudent, in devoting so much space to the Ancestry of "Pink and White...
...Pink and White" was an Homeric epithet attached to Randolph Church, 18, son of Winston Churchill, on the occasion of a slashing philippic which he delivered in the Oxford Union on the Labor Party's "weak" policy in Egypt (TIME...
...Undoubtedly some of them in violet). Tutees in green. Freshmen in pink ones...
Verano, the dry, summer season of Spanish-America, left its mark in parched river beds and many leafless trees, some bearing weird green fruits, others ablaze with blossoms, yellow, white or pink. These conditions in the lowlands made plant hunting not as favorable as in the hills, for there vegetation grew thickly because of the continual moisture, supplied by low-lying clouds. Here scores of odd lichens, curious, climbling epiphytic plants, growing on all available tree trunks in the darkly forested places gave witness to the unending persistency of jungle life, besides affording rich material for the steel cases...