Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arresting. In Great Falls, Mont., police clung to what dignity they could in their new pink radio...
...which they excel men), learn meteorology, navigation and other pilots' lore, wear coveralls while flying and, in general, are "processed" like men. But there are some variations. Example: Avenger's pin-neat barracks have walls of Nile green and white. The cream-colored lockers, where cosmetics and pink underthings are discreetly kept, are locked with hasps tastefully pegged with pink golf tees...
White-bearded, pink-pated Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, 72, president of the Baptist World Alliance, had packed up his things at headquarters in London weeks before, come to the U.S. to attend the Alliance's executive committee meeting this week in Chicago. Along the way Dr. Rushbrooke preached many a sermon. He also sat in many a conference with clergy and laymen, outlining the wartime plight of the church from the Yangtze to the Zuyder Zee. But he saw hope, where many Baptists still could not see it, in Russia's easing attitude toward religion. Said he, seriously...
...lives a methodical if jittery life, alternating between a suite in a midtown Manhattan hotel and rented villas in Hollywood. He has a high giggle, a flamboyant taste for red ties and pink-striped shirts. Horowitz' great absorption outside music is his magnificent collection of snuffboxes assembled from over the world. He keeps them in a large chest of drawers, laid out with geometrical precision on a lining of green silk...
...last week for talks with U.S. postwar planners was England's pink-cheeked, birdlike Sir William Beveridge, with his bride. The author of Britain's famed proposal for "cradle to grave" security through compulsory insurance kept his arrival secret for two days, finally emerged at a press conference in the sumptuous offices of the Rockefeller Foundation...