Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Beaverbrook's flamboyant Sunday Express of London is one of Britain's most popular papers. One reason: Nathaniel Gubbins, a 50-year-old, pink-faced fellow who looks like a shy insurance agent whose feet hurt. Nathaniel (real name: Norman) Gubbins is a columnist...
...about the girl in the grey sweater at the first table near the door that wasn't quite right. There was something hard and unfeminine about her as she walked into Eliot House last Saturday night, and people began wondering. But no one was sure. She had on a pink turban sort of thing...
...sent to Britain and the U.S. for staff talks on supply problems. In the U.S. Golikov was treated (and behaved) more like a mystery man than a visiting celebrity. He was observed to be a muscular man with a head which seemed to have been carved from pink glass, to be so short that the handkerchief in Sumner Welles's pocket showed above his clean-shaven crown. Beyond that nothing was known. He disappeared after a brief visit...
...form any judgment" as to the complex plan in question, but declared that unity would be "a very great contribution toward the cause we all have at heart." Bishop Parsons, who has had rough going because of high church opposition (with Bishop Manning in the van), was tickled pink, got the letter published in Episcopal church papers...
...track. Snuggling at the foot of the snow-capped Sierra Madre Mountains, Sloan's dream track will have a three-tiered grandstand, four-tiered clubhouse with betting windows and cocktail bars on each level and a super-gaudy ballroom with a black marble floor, silver walls and shell-pink ceiling...