Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prerogatives to the barons, who have held them ever since-the backdoor of the peerage-cum-charmed political circle always being carefully left wide open to "commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking in. Apart from occasional darts to the Left, dragging...
...Follette packed the University's Board of Regents with his own men and ousted slick Glenn Frank from the presidency. Hardly had Phil La Follette got Clarence Addison Dykstra, Cincinnati's flood city manager, into the job than Wisconsin did a political about-face and elected plump, pink Republican Julius Peter ("The Just") Heil to the Governorship (TIME, Jan. 16). Governor Heil promptly declared war on President Dykstra...
...talenty, touted young English poets and amateur leftists, went to China to see what all the shooting was about. First peep at Canton's muddy West River reminded the boys of the Severn. Next peep showed them the crews of U.S. and British gunboats playing football ("hairy, meat-pink men with powerful buttocks...
Arrow, published by an anonymous group of journalists of whom the leader is grey-haired, pink-faced Fred Voigt, one of the ablest newspapermen in England and a close friend of Sir Robert Vansittart, famed Foreign Office careerist. Printed on a hand press in an Old Gloucester Street basement, Arrow comes out on Friday, helps to fill the weekend gap in British news. Its policy: ''England must be strong...
Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...