Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ENCOURAGED by the vast numbers of drawing room pinks and pseudo-intellectuals who devoured the pages of Strachey's first editions of "The Coming Struggle for Power", The Modern Library now brings out a new issue for a dollar so that even those who can't afford a drawing room to be pink in can now have the advantage of reading this attack on Wall Street and Main Street...
...cultivation. Some are low shrubs, others are forest trees. Some bear fruits closely resembling the cultivated apple in size and shape, others have fruits so tiny that one must look closely to see any resemblance to an apple. While the flowers in truth are mainly white or pink, they too may vary, for there are a number of varicties of such a brilliant rosy purple that the colour must be seen to be believed." It is fortunate that this whole issue has been cleared up once...
...flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles in mustaches, whiskers and such haircuts as the Saratoga, Newport, Elite, Square and Senator. With these they set the stage which was decorated with green & pink walls and flanked with tall striped barber poles...
...bank. The Diamond sculls, held by a German, have gone to Switzerland now. The rowing world hopes it will be able to welcome an American crew next year to the regatta. But the rowing is only a part of Henley; there are meetings of old rowing men in pink Leander caps, society picnics outings on the river, and above all the fair which lines the banks, where Gypsies patronised by King Edward tell your fortune, where young Etonians in grey suits are fleeced by sharpers and tricksters...
When Kentucky-born John B. Hutson went to work for the Department of Agriculture a dozen years ago, he was a practical expert on tobacco and Henry Cantwell Wallace sat in the Secretary's chair. By last month pink-cheeked, grey-haired John B. Hutson had become not only the AAAuthority on tobacco but also on rice, sugar and peanuts and his old boss's son, Henry Agard Wallace, sat in the Secretary's office. Last week John B. Hutson was given AAA control over a fifth crop?the common, or Irish potato?and irate farmers throughout the land...