Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ante). At the Palace Chop House & Tavern, officers, newshawks and surgeons beheld a sight unparalleled since Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25. 1929). Lying on the sidewalk they found Abraham Landau, Flegenheimer henchman, where he had collapsed after a futile attempt to pink the two assassins. Just inside, Bernard Rosenkrantz, Flegen-heimer's chauffeur, sprawled in a pool of blood oozing from six wounds. In the rear room, which smelled like a shooting gallery, they found a roly-poly little man with wide, blue eyes. He was Otto Biederman, gambler and underworld clown...
...gawped upward into the French Liner's rigging at one Chrysis de la Grange, a shapely girl who calls herself the world's champion twist rope acrobat, was busy proving it in a bathing suit for publicity purposes. Among the gawpers was another publicity-minded person, fubsy, pink-chopped, little Harold Keates Hales, Member of Parliament who has achieved his place in the sun not by cavorting on a rope but by donating the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy for transatlantic speed (TIME, July 29).*The final masterpiece in a career of diligent eccentricity which includes never blowing...
...bridge must fly low directly overhead. Whittley arranged his guns in star-shaped formation with sights screwed tight and set for an imaginary point just above the centre of the bridge. Providing the Ethiopian soldiers remembered where the triggers were at the right moment, they were sure to pink any plane that entered the field of fire...
...three men who founded Groton, Billings ("Mr. B.") and Gardner ("Mr. G.") are dead. Endicott Peabody at 78 is as quick of wit and pink of cheek as a man of 60. Every boy and master knows that the Rector misses nothing, that his word is law. Dr. Peabody still coaches one of the intramural crews, still rides horseback. Sometimes Mrs. Peabody rides with him. A handsome, fragile lady, in black velvet dog collar and pearls, the Rector's wife has been a Peabody all her life and the Groton colors, red, white & black, were the colors...
Elvira and, Tiberio, his prize-winning canvas (see cut) shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...