Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strawherry" blondes use a brunette's paint pot to achieve something between a Texas sunset and "the steel mills by night" effect on the jowls and cheek hones. Eskimo brunettes are just about as successful with the raspberry, rabbit's-ear pink, peach and natural-blonde. And when the women with a will and a head of hair like the Alabama crimson tide white-wash the freckles and lay on a coat of orange-peel dust they are ready for the brickyards union...
...they first voted for him in 1928. The White House has left its scars of service on the President. His hair is greyer. His shoulders seem to droop in discouragement. The lines about his eyes have cut in deeper and those about his mouth have hardened. The round baby-pink face of the 1920's has grown firmer, more mature. Washington has been as cruel to him as to any President in history. And yet somehow, for all the heartbreak that has been his, Mr. Hoover has grown in inner stature. To strangers he may appear a beaten...
Before a silent House of Representatives stood Wright Patman, a pink- cheeked, curly-headed young Democratic Congressman from Texas repeating an ancient and awful parliamentary ritual. A legislative neophyte in his second term, he should, by rights, have been sitting quietly in a back row listening to his elders debate great issues. Instead, he was leaping recklessly forward to invoke the most solemn provision of the Constitution to remove from the Cabinet its most venerable member...
Inside the Kremlin Fortress 600 pink-cheeked, drably-dressed Russians met last week in the gorgeous, glittering onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II. Stamping the snow off their shoes, blowing on their hands, wiping their red noses, lighting cigarets and shouting greetings they sat down on wooden benches for a brief session of the Soviet Parliament, or Union Central Executive Committee...
...light-telephone, devised by John Bellamy Taylor, translates sound into electrical impulses (as does an ordinary telephone) and then through a neon bulb into a pink wave of light. The receiving set catches the light in a photoelectric tube which translates the message into electricity, then sound. Dr. Taylor has telephoned by this system across the Hudson River, a distance of about 3,000 ft. Anyone with a proper receiving set who could see his sending beam, could hear what he said...