Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Beveridge is slim, with longish white hair combed over a domed forehead. His eyes are china blue, his face pink, with deep humor incisions on either side of his wry mouth. Britons know him as an idealist who has never belonged to a political party in his life. He believes firmly in State planning, for which, says he, suitable political machinery should be provided...
...that same day: Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, riled by a charge in Eugene Meyer's Washington Post that he had failed to lay in a sufficient rubber stockpile, punched Mr. Meyer at a Washington party; WPB cut out the use of iron and steel in golf clubs 50%; pink-cheeked Gaston Henry-Haye, Ambassador of Vichyfrance, presented Franklin Roosevelt with a bound volume of the speeches of Marshal Petain to "enlighten" the President on the "general principles that the Marshal is following...
...where even Australian and U.S. nurses had to glance aside lest they blush at the spectacle of grimy soldiers bathing in the nude under roadside showers. One U.S. soldier, seeing the General one morning before breakfast, ran back to his comrades, exclaimed: "He was under the trees in a pink silk dressing gown with a black dragon on the back...
Died. A nameless mouse of uncertain age; by devouring (by a pink rat); in Hurstmonceaux, England. His distinction: he was green. He was a triumph of the Rev. Dr. Rosslyn Bruce, an amateur geneticist, who bred 50 mouse generations to achieve the greenness...
...Pink-cheeked Playwright Kenward has drifted about the West Coast for years, acting, teaching, directing. Visualizing women's role in modern war, he wrote Cry Havoc (the title comes from Julius Caesar: "Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!") nearly three years ago with a different setting, shelved it, rewrote it after Bataan...