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Word: pinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corio, who in private life is the respected wife of Producer Emmett Callahan, in the wings after her act, followed her to her dressing room, watched her put on dark stockings, white net panties, a peach satin garter belt embroidered ANNE, a robin's egg blue chemise, a pink silk slip, a long-sleeved, high-necked black dress, a black hat and long kid gloves. "Thus," wrote Reporter Ager, "does a strip artist in her private life get even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: No. 1 Stripper | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...Communists and Socialists flayed the Premier's program as virtual laissez faire. "Better have President Roosevelt!" shrilled a Pink deputy. "He is not afraid to tackle economic problems for the benefit of the masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Last Experiment | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Paradoxically the Labor or Socialist landslide last week snuffed out the Communists. They took the worst beating Britons have given them in years, proved by their utter downfall that King George V's proletariat is not going Red but resolutely pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Triumph of Pink | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...Catalina Island, Mrs. S. M. Douglas caught a handsome swordfish, wanted to mount it in her boudoir. Mrs. Douglas took her catch to Mrs. Charles Parker in Los Angeles, had it painted a delicate pink "to match the drapes." Taxidermist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swordfish | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...facts of life. It is a point needing little re-emphasis that the semi-literacy which is weaned on the diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush, joe penners and streamlined bathtubs, athletes foot and esquire. It glories in the Sir Galahad account of the Spanish-American War, and it establishes as a natural limit to the study of civics, the skeleton of the local street-cleaning department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET'S HAVE THE FACTS | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

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