Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (the Little Entente) met over a case of champagne for their annual get together. This year's meeting was crucial. Dictator Mussolini for months has been trying to weld Yugoslavia to his Rome-Berlin axis, to smash thei Little Entente's solidarity and isolate "pink" Czechoslovakia, a Fascist headache because of her mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Glowing with good food and drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy in Spain, dodging the question of recognition of the Italian conquest...
...world's most respected Quakers, Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford. Author of 40 books, longtime philosophy professor, Quaker Jones represents the broadening and liberalizing of Quaker thought which, without cooling its emotional nature, has kept the sect its self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which he once played and which remains a major...
...mouths of babes, parents are sometimes horrified to see emitted sturdy pink bubbles which burst with a snapping sound. A child who is expert with bubble gum can blow a globe almost as big as his head. Satisfaction is also to be derived from gulping back bubbles of moderate size, making them pop inside the mouth. As millions of U. S. moppets return to school this month these practices are going to be more prevalent, because September is a peak month for sales of "Blony" bubble...
...representatives from 21 nations, including France's bouncing Edouard Herriot, Czechoslovakia's venerable Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, England's Leaguophile Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. The meeting was boycotted by totalitarian Russia, Germany and Italy, but when the old lady, peering sharply from behind high baskets of pink and red roses, began to speak, it was in full-throated Italian. At 67, Dottoressa Maria Montessori had called together a ten-day international Congress on Education & Peace...
...call a "tough cop."† Last week he was going ahead with plans to stop passing cars, subject their drivers to quizzes on traffic law. Undersheriff Coling was undismayed by the possibility that motor clubs would route their clients around Racine County. Said he: "I'd be tickled pink if they would." He was also sure that Wisconsin law would back him up: "If anyone doubts the legal ability of a deputy to stop a car, let him keep on going. He'll get a bullet in a rear tire...