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Word: pinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...checked himself. He wouldn't think about that. The hand of death had lain heavily on France, but there were parts it had not touched, parts where there were laughter and bright lights and crowded busses, parts where people danced all through the night and the sky was pink from the neon below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

...mise en scene is especially well handled, with motion pictures occupying many of the waits between the play's fifteen scenes. But audiences will forget the pink parachutes painted over the Kremlin, they will forget the startling beauty of the chorines, and they may even forget the tunes. Yet the portrait of a new Babbitt, from Topeka, Kansas, who likes nothing better than pitching horseshoes with the boys, will remain in their minds as a tribute to Mr. Moore and a charming conception of true Americanism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/18/1938 | See Source »

...curtain of the new, resplendent Alexandria (see cut) first goes up in an age of hansom cabs, and the theatre's great days give the authors a chance to bring back scenes from a host of famous shows, from The Easiest Way and The Pink Lady to What Price Glory? and The Vortex. Every so often the pageant is halted because the theatre is rumored dead of various causes: Roosevelt I, the automobile, the war-tax, the movies, the radio, Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms had to be set up outside the tent to hold the entertainers who offered free assistance. This week, among a jampacked, wildly cheering crowd of children, Mr. Meitus wandered happily, chortled: "Boy, am I havin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: South Side Circus | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...water hole of the Plantation Golf Course at Boise, Idaho's tall, pink-faced Senator James Pinckney Pope, who was defeated last month for renomination, scored a hole-in-one, chortled: "I guess my luck is changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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