Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Klieg lights played on the pink marble head of Lenin, brooding in the great hall of the Kremlin; on the thousand heads in mid-Asian skullcaps, scarves and army caps; on the calm, mute face of Stalin; on the discreet face of Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; and on Molotov, crying to the members of the Supreme Soviet...
...drunkards, develops in "persons of robust health" after ten or 15 years of hard drinking. A severe injury or illness usually starts the disease off. Victims suffer from uncontrollable trembling (often including the tongue) as well as from visions of faces, voices, small, fast-moving animals. (The traditional pink elephant has been seen by only one patient on record...
...entertain a Radcliffe girl in the evening is simple. Don't be ashamed to take her to the University Theater, walking her back and forth to her dormitory. Above all, don't be loathe to use the subway to get her into Boston. She'll be so tickled pink to see that fabulous city that she'll almost be willing to pay her own fare. (Note quite.) In Boston are plays, movies, bars, symphonies, and store windows, depending on your pleasure and your purse...
...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps had openings for 450 officers. On the first day, bemused Army recruiting officers gave out 13,208 long, pink application blanks, explained 13,208 times that an applicant must be between her 21st and 50th birthdays* (no, she must not fib about her age), must be between five and six feet tall, must weigh between 105 and 200 Lb., must have a high-school education...
...mansion since Park Commissioner Robert Moses had made the first move to remodel it last February. Said Taylor: "Commissioner Moses is trying to make an early American out of LaGuardia. The Mayor isn't too enthusiastic." The wallpaper in the Mayor's bedroom-to-be: flowery pink and white...