Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly Admiral Yamamoto, when he received London correspondents, seemed in the pink of optimism. He exuded confidence that the U. S. and Britain will soon see the justice of Japan's three main and simple aspirations: 1) Scrapping of the ratio system to give Japan "equality." 2) Scrapping by the Great Powers of such "primarily offensive" weapons as aircraft carriers. 3) Retention in good standing of such "primarily defensive" weapons as submarines...
...history, piled up a terrific Conservative majority. Barrios fell. First Lerroux, then Samper became Premier. Month after month Socialists, Syndicalists, Communists have seen the country swing further and further to the Right. There is definite threat of a semi-Fascist dictatorship. Radicals of all complexions from the rose-pink of Manuel Azana to the black anarchism of innumerable hotheads joined for a final attempt at revolution...
...tutor blushed a delicate pink back of the ears and returned without a word to his room for the green little card...
...tightly as he fills his own bulging vest does Sir Josiah Charles Stamp fill his various important posts in London. As a Director of the Bank of England, this pink and pleasant knight is second only in reputation to Montagu Norman. He is also chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a colonel of the Royal Engineers, general treasurer of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and a much sought-after lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge...
...suddenly came alive with young women in sports clothes hurrying along neat walks with bridge lamps, books, trash baskets, suitcases. Three hundred and seventy of them were freshmen. After supper they and 854 upperclassmen trooped into a red-roofed, Collegiate-Gothic chapel. There President Henry Noble MacCracken, his full, pink face looking some-what careworn, droned a mild message of greeting to the effect that while three-score years and ten is a respectable age for a human, it is mere childhood for an up & coming institution like Vassar...