Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plump, coquettish Adrienne Delamare, aged 12, wanted to marry brisk, bold-eyed Henri Pinteau, 17. Their parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...
Chief Tshekedi, backed by a corps of lawyers, argued his case most fluently, adding considerably to the brilliance of the scene by appearing throughout the trial in a pair of pink-striped pajamas from Bond Street. The hero of the Antarctic mopped his brow under the withered fig-tree and gave judgment: 1) Lewd Phineas was banished from Bechuanaland forever. 2) For daring to punish a white man, Chief Tshekedi was removed from the Bamangwato tribe, exiled from his tribal lands. Admiral Evans pronounced the verdict on Chief Tshekedi as sympathetically as possible...
...little pigs turned song-pluggers. Their behavior was revolutionary so far as the song industry was concerned. Song-plugging had been left before to such shrewd and experienced performers as Rudy Vallée, Al Jolson, Helen Morgan. The three little pigs were neither shrewd nor experienced. They were pink and new-looking with pudgy behinds and ridiculous tails. Two were so imprudent that they built their houses of straws and sticks, fiddled and danced and tootled on the flute all day, mocking their serious pig-brother who built a brick house and plastered it with wolfproof cement...
...book about a preacher." Author Lewis settled in Kansas City where "Bill" Stidger was preaching, got him and other local ministers to help him with Elmer Gantry. But Dr. Stidger "most certainly did not have in mind the kind of a preacher book that Lewis wrote." ¶ Tall, highbrowed, pink-cheeked Reinhold Niehbuhr, Socialist, is "the most popular speaker among college groups on the American platform today." Editor of World Tomorrow, he teaches at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Unlike that other preacher-to-the-young, Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling (whom Author Jones does not include among his chosen...
...Roses. A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a little less...