Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas' founding fathers picked Austin for the State capital because of its natural beauty, perched on bluffs above the Colorado River. The State Capitol of pink Texas granite, biggest in the U. S., was built by Chicago capitalists, paid for with 3,000,000 acres of public land which later produced oil, are now worth about $60,-000,000. University of Texas at Austin (enrollment: 7,000) scraped along on its 2,000,000-acre endowment until oil was struck in 1923, since when it has become the richest and one of the best state universities in the land...
Last week General Somoza showed his hand. His National Guard kicked out the Government's officials in a dozen Nicaraguan towns. Forewarned, President Sacasa prepared Nicaragua's two strongest fortresses: surrounded the pink stone Presidential Palace near Managua on top of a dead volcano with his Guard of Honor, pushed loyal National Guardsmen to Fort Acosasco in Leon. Next day the National Guard assaulted the Presidential Palace in force, were repulsed with two dead, 16 wounded. Meanwhile National Guard artillery pounded away at Fort Acosasco, commanded by the President's kinsman, Major Ramon Sacasa...
...darling of effeminate young men, the envy of dowagers, old Lady Mendl claims to have won the title of the World's Best Dressed Woman at a cost of only $15,000 a year. She dyes her hair green, blue or pink and learned how to swim free-style at past 60. Three years ago she swam to shore when a friend's speedboat caught fire off the Riviera. Said she then: "Ten minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives." She made an exception...
...Park, this 27-room house is hard by the Persian and Afghanistan legations. Down the street, in case of trouble, is the Hyde Park Barracks of the Royal Horse Guards. Last week Ethiopian Princess Asfa Yilma redecorated the Emperor's London hide out, the drawing room in pastel pink, the dining room in grey, the offices in primrose...
...Manhattan court ordered pink-cheeked, white-whiskered Realtor-Philanthropist August Hecksher, 88, to continue paying plump, blonde Operasinger Frieda Hempel, 51, $15,000 a year for the rest of her life. Thus aired was an interesting domestic relationship. In 1926 Singer Hempel divorced her husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire Hecksher. Year later, she sued Millionaire Hecksher for breaking an oral contract to pay her $48,000 a year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters...