Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northern half of the cotton belt, cottonseed was going into the ground. In Texas, cotton plants were coming up. On the prairies-save where dust and drought had ruined it-winter wheat was growing green and waving in the breeze. In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows. And in Washington, now that May was there, a crop of legislative dragons' teeth, the AAAmendments, were also coming...
...circulation of 700 or 800 and a much larger debt. He persuaded the paper's creditors that he could make the paper pay its way, and he did. He got similar results with his farms and orchards. The job of doing so made him what he is: pink-faced, sober and. more significant politically, a believer in economy and budget balancing...
...Duke of Gloucester. As the grand procession climax, came an open landau with King George as a Field Marshal looking as the late great French President Raymond Poincare once described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side was Queen Mary in a gown of hydrangea pink silk net, embroidered with lace, and worn over a slip of dazzling silver cloth, the whole enhanced by a necklace, bracelets and earrings of diamonds and pearls. Roared a huckster from Victoria Monument, "God bless you, Sir! God save...
PARIS, May 6 (UP)-Pink gas masks of silk and rubber, held in place by golden head bands, were offered today to women of fashion by the dressmaker Dilkusha...
...hostess: "You sit here and smile and talk about mistakes and starving men and studying art at Columbia and what does it all amount to?" Mr. Bach finds, apparently, that it amounts to the inevitable disintegration of capitalistic society, and ironically points out, in "So You're a Parlor Pink," that the nice, humane, middle-class intellectuals who toy with communistic theories contribute materially to their own subversion; he concludes on a note of cynicism wherein he ventures to predict that "during the fundamental crisis" a few Parlorites may go with the revolution, but that the majority will complete...