Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleepy village of Ste. Claire (pop. 150) in rugged, sparsely settled Dorchester County went Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, a pink-cheeked opportunist who was once Premier of Quebec and would like to be again. He was there to address a typical pre-campaign meeting in Quebec, where all important political meetings are held on Sunday. Townspeople, farmers in from the country, all of them fresh from morning Mass, thronged to hear Maurice Duplessis make...
From London Daily Expressmen overseas came congratulatory cables for plump, pink, self-confident Editor in Chief Arthur Christiansen. London staffers and Fleet Street competitors bought him double Scotches at Poppin's and The Bell and The Codgers, his favorite pubs...
...fatal to parliamentary government. Logic, Churchill added without a smile, created the semicircular assemblies "which give every member not only a seat to sit in but often a desk with a lid to bang. . . and enable every individual or group to move around the center adopting various shades of pink according to how the weather changes." In an oblong chamber, where those who support the government face those who oppose it, "crossing the floor requires serious consideration...
Martin Van Buren sits in repose, a white tie and high collar at his throat, his white hair like a halo around his balding old head, white sideburns creeping down his pink cheeks. Grover Cleveland leans back in majestic bulk, the imperious, mustachioed symbol of the era of bankers and builders. Teddy Roosevelt stares through his pince-nez with impatient energy, head belligerently forward, right hand resting on table, left fist clenched at the hip. And Franklin Roosevelt relaxes, hands on chair arms, in a pose so familiar that not even the bad, sharp lines of the Albany portrait...
...city put on a festive air. The streets were filled with officers and men in smart, bemedaled uniforms. The ballet, opera, concerts, plays, movies drew big crowds. Subway stations shone with bright pink paint; fresh plaster concealed the scars on bombed buildings...