Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duzer Burton, Baltimore socialite, gave a ball at his home near Monkton, Md. (once the house of dandaical Sportsman Foxhall Keene). At midnight, while the orchestra was playing a waltz, into the ballroom in his pink hunting coat gravely rode Van Duzer Burton on Golden Eagle, his favorite hunter...
With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...
...calmly faced the probability that before "nonviolent non-coöperation" has gotten very far there will be enough casual rioting and bloodshed to justify the reimprisonment of Mr. Gandhi (let out of jail in 1924), and the mowing down of a goodly number of gentlemen in white, ladies in pink...
Sally (First National). The difference between a musical comedy on the stage and one on the screen is that the size of everything is doubled and its effectiveness cut in half. This is a photograph, in pink technicolor shades, of a show without much wit or any good new songs. It is partly redeemed by the expert dancing of Marilyn Miller. Best dance: "A Wild, Wild Rose...
...Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic, a pink tabloid devoted to its owner's cult of things physical published an epithalamic editorial, based upon pure assumption, dealing with a subject into which not even the most nosey newspapers are accustomed to intrude. Under the heading "When Athletes Marry," the Graphic publicly discussed Mrs. Moody and her husband as follows...