Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected that Professor Baxter will receive far different treatment in England than was accorded the Archbishop of York in this country. When the latter spoke of England's history and aims, his interpretations met with abusive language and "who cares" insolence from the yellow, pink, and generally motley-colored press. Some day, it is devoutly to be hoped, these journals will recognize that fools are mean to be amusing, not destructive and annoying...
Michael Strauss ("Mike") Jacobs is a fat, pink-shirted promoter who started his business career selling newspapers on a tough and highly competitive corner in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid...
...bright pink retina of the eye can be photographed straight through the pupil with a Zeiss retinal camera. As reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which...
...going to get sodden drunk so Mother will know how it looks and will stop her drinking," said Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, schoolboy son of the famed stock market trader, when he returned to his mother's home at Montecito, Calif., late Thanksgiving evening. In the big pink stucco house Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, who divorced Trader Livermore in 1932, was giving a drinking party. Son Jesse began downing a quart of whiskey. Screamed tipsy Mrs. Livermore: "I'd rather see you dead than drinking!" Son Jesse lurched into another room, returned with one of the guns...
Jean Harlow dedicated the studio's Blonde Room, done in powder-blue; Claudette Colbert the Brunette Room in dusty pink...