Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down South, Atlanta was decked with the soft pink bloom of magnolia, the white tracery of "breath-of-spring" shrubs, the yellow islands of jonquils in deep green grass. Hopeful fishermen ringed Atlanta's Piedmont Park Lake; but they never caught anything. On farms, fresh-turned furrows lay brick-red in the sun; farmers planting corn, cotton and peanuts shouted at their mules...
Eight years ago, pink-faced, silver-haired Leo Crowley was called to Washington as a symbol of banking integrity, to restore public confidence in banking. A small town Wisconsin boy, a onetime grocery clerk, Mr. Crowley was eminent in Wisconsin church and business circles. Pope Pius XI decorated him with the Order of St. Gregory for his services. He was president of the Bank of Wisconsin, sponsored legislation to strengthen the State's banking system. Mr. Roosevelt made him chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...Italians believed this story, but later there were eyewitnesses when Mussolini reviewed troops bound for Russia. He had watched them from the steps of the pink marble villa he built for Claretta Petacci. Ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-trained, the troops stumbled when they tried to goose-step. "It doesn't much matter," said Mussolini. But not long after, periods of depression engulfed him. By last week he was surly, as likely to fly into tantrums as he was when Angelica Balabanoff found him sleeping under bridges in Switzerland; when Rachele Guidi shuddered as he spat at priests...
...copper, aluminum, chrome, nickel and iridium, these pieces of raffia, felt, wood, clay and glass are the latest thing-and almost the only thing left-in costume ("junk") jewelry. Whoop-dedoo of the spring season are pieces like a pair of red felt lips clutching a pink felt rose...
...pilot. They asked him: "Can we carry three fathoms of water through this passage?" "Yes," said the Indian. "Is there a good anchorage in there and can we get water?" "Yes," said the Indian. Then a mate who had had some experience with Indians took a hand. "Does the pink, pot-bellied ostrich live on that island?" he asked. "Yes," said the Indian. "And are you a - damned -of a -?" asked the enraged mateo "Yes," said the Indian...