Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China, abandoning it without resistance to a few strutting Japanese who had delivered a brash ultimatum (TIME, June 17). It was peculiar that batches of arriving Japanese troops should be waited on in Tientsin by dainty Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei should give a bounteous banquet at which their chosen Guest of Honor was the onetime Japanese Minister Akira...
...Still pink with pride over his giant Pan American Clipper (S-42), which lately flew the Pacific to Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...
...editorials on teaching and scholarship. But you all know we like teaching and hate scholarship. We might disclose another deficiency in the Freshman year, but, thank God, we are bored to death with it. We do not even feel strong enough to tackle the football team, those parlor pink iconoclasts in the NSL, or Mr. Roosevelt, whom you may have forgotten is one of our former Presidents...
...president of Rutgers University.) Of the three living sons of Founder Strawbridge only one, Robert, is active as vice president. His brother Francis, a director, retired from active business some years ago as did jovial, sandy-haired Frederic H. Strawbridge who, resplendent in a tan bowler and greatcoat, cheeks pink as pippins, is often seen riding at Chestnut Hill high on the seat of his tallyho...
...succeed him Governor Lehman appointed Louis Heaton Pink, who has been directing the Insurance Department emergency mortgage rehabilitation bureau. A Brooklyn lawyer with a conspicuous record of civic service, Mr. Pink is a specialist in slum-clearance and low-cost housing, once served on the State Housing Board, now sits on New York City's Municipal Housing Authority...