Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coat of gold plated bronze, stood 18 in. high, 30 in. from rump to horns. There were two Lincoln rams, their fleece rendered in coarse-grained Burgandy stone. The great Middle White champion boar, Wharfedale Deliverance, beaten at last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly...
...rather than satirical, these three poems sing of London love. A Stitch in Time, or Pride Prevents a Fall tells how Belinda nearly fell a prey to the importunity of a suitor, at the last minute saved her virtue when she remembered she had darned her green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist...
...Lewis (stroking his once pink but now grey whiskers): Believe me, the Senator from Illinois finds it no suffering to hear the Senator from Wisconsin...
...publicly voice his opinion of the Rockefeller methods. Then the opinion came from a capitalist who is almost as old as John D. Sr., and almost as philanthropic, who also found his fortune beneath the earth (zinc) and also ploughed a large part of it into midtown Manhattan. Pink-cheeked little August Heckscher put his protest in the form of a $10,000,000 suit against Rockefeller Center Corp., its officers, directors, backers and builders...
Meantime a National Conference on Students in Politics composed of eleven Red-to-Pink student organizations was hearing Secretary of Agriculture Wallace crackle: "There is something altogether too smug, complacent and self-satisfied about the youth of the United States." Before adjournment the Conference took a stand against R. O. T. C., war, racial discrimination, Fascism; for Federal aid to education, a Government "equally concerned for the good...