Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polish Jewess, Minister Goebbels refused her permission to act in Germany. Suddenly this order was overruled by the Führer himself. "Investigation," read the official communiqué, "instituted by the Reichsführer has established that Pola Negri is Polish and therefore Aryan" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Pink with pleasure, Actress Negri cried: "The whole world knows that I am a Catholic. . . . Der Führer must be a brilliant man. I haven't met him, but I would like to. You know, I have a lot of big men in my memories...
...nearly so much a sign of political spring as the news that onetime President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, who has been living in Miami since Boss Batista turned him out in January 1934, was proposing to return. Strong though General Menocal is, Dr. Grau, a deep Pink if not a real Red, is even stronger with the Cuban electorate, and Batista might welcome him back as an ally to stave off eclipse by the martial Menocal...
...cruciform-like rim of Washington's Tidal Basin was pink & white with cherry blossoms last week. As it has many times before, the city celebrated the event with a festival embracing barefoot dancers, band concerts, fireworks, and the crowning of the 10-year-old daughter of the Japanese Ambassador, Miss Sakiko Saito, as Queen of the Festival. The entire performance brought to the District of Columbia an estimated 200,000 visitors, who left behind in hotels, shops and theatres about $5,000,000 in cash...
Last week what they had been working on was completed: a mural for the Paris Exposition of 1937, "largest painting in the world" showing in brilliant blobs of pink, green, yellow, purple and brown the history of electricity from Aristotle to 20th Century Mme Curie...
Wearing a pink negligee to advantage, the backstroke artist claimed that all training should be left to the individual. "Personally I train hard for two weeks and then take a break." She bemoaned a hangover during the interview, hastened to add that extra rehearsals after her show, not any connection with the miscellaneous cocktail and whiskey glasses around the room, caused her present discomfort...