Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of Dr. Gruening, an ex-editor of The Nation. For nothing does Hawaii dread more than that the New Deal's doctors, medical and philosophical, may cause map-makers to tint U. S. possessions with the color hitherto traditionally assigned to Britain's colonies?a bright pink...
...Pink-cheeked from cruising in and out of Norwegian fjords, Robert Worth Bingham, President Roosevelt's wispish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was able to take the gavel with the consent of his doctors when the International Wheat Conference convened last week in London...
...that moppets with dimes, nickels and pennies could share in honoring the man who gave them the tales of the foxiness of Brer Fox and the agility of Brer Rabbit. First substantial gift came from Col. Sam Tate, president of Georgia Marble Co., who lives in a huge pink marble mansion in Tate, 60 miles north of Atlanta, and from whose quarries was cut the stone that built the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Cleveland, the Bok Carillon Tower at Mountain Lake, Fla., the Harding Memorial at Marion. He promised $30,000 worth of Georgia Pink. A nationwide competition will...
...were his 634-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. ($2,186,000), his private railroad car Wanderer ($25,000), his yacht Whileaway ($62,500), Van Dyck's Portrait of Sir William Villiers ($60,000), Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of A Lady ($18,000), two pink Oriental shirt studs...
...expensive sort of "courts" Their Majesties hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch's mother...