Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the featured members of the cast drawn mainly from the talented Radcliffe undergraduate body are a gamboling cow, a "naughty" wolf, a Gerry with colored ears and a lumbering pink elephant. In a supreme effort to animalize sniff each other suitably...
...Indianapolis, a young woman who had been vaccinated for smallpox rubbed the small pink spot on her arm with her finger, with the same finger vigorously scratched her nose. Few days later, her doctor found that, while the vaccination had not taken on her arm, it certainly had on her nose...
Like free lunch, the pink elephant is passing from the U. S. alcoholic scene. So wrote young Dr. John Burton Dynes of Boston in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Dr. Dynes interviewed 57 victims of delirium tremens in Psychopathic Hospital, asked each patient to describe the various Animals he saw leaping around on the walls, ceiling, bed. Only four drunkards saw elephants, only one of the elephants was pink. One patient howled that he was being devoured by a whale, another begged Dr. Dynes to save him from a raging hippopotamus. Other denizens...
...This is your show now," said Harry Hopkins to Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington when he turned over WPA to the new administrator last month, "but I'll be glad to help out should you ask me to.'' Last week Colonel Harrington wanted it clearly understood that Harry Hopkins had not "helped out" in his selection of Relief's No. 2 man, to replace Mr. Hopkins' lanky, idealistic, foot-in-mouth friend, Aubrey Williams (now sidetracked to the Youth Administration). Harrington's own choice was Howard Owen Hunter, a dark, lean, hard-hitting Southerner...
Harry Hopkins' friends say that his genius as an administrator lies in his endless patience with subordinates, his capacity for getting such work as they are capable of out of men whose limitations he understands. "Pink" Harrington is a West Pointer and his No. 2 man is no fuddy-duddy. Howard Hunter spent 18 months with the A. E. F. as an officer in Tulane University's medical unit, was a Boy Scout executive, for ten years a professional fundraiser for Community Chests-picked by Harry Hopkins, who was once an expert in private charitarian money-gathering...