Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grant Wood got to Paris, but Paris just confused him. He studied dutifully at the famed Julian Academy, dressed with Bohemian flamboyance, grew a crop of pink whiskers, painted scores of ordinary, dreamy, old-world impressionist landscapes. But his heart was not in it. He finally decided: "All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." He went back to his native Iowa, to paint the country and the people he knew. But it was not in Iowa, but back in Europe again, that he discovered the style that finally made...
Only positive action on the part of the British can bring India over to the side of the fighting Allied Nations. Only fulfilled promises can make the sky-blue-pink Atlantic Charter mean something to the wily "untouchables." The sooner the British Parliament votes to give India all the freedom she wants, the sooner she can count on action from one of the largest populations in the world... and it had better be very soon...
Senhor Aranha, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, Chile's Juan Bautista Rossetti, Peru's gaunt-jowled Alfredo Solf y Muro and Ecuador's pink-cheeked Julio Tobar Donoso, each to his own taste, drank up. Still rumpled and tired, the six men filed out to a bronze-studded table in the Itamaraty Palace's Saláo de Baile and before glaring camera lights and sleepy-eyed newsmen signed a protocol which settled-after 113 years of intermittent border warfare-the last major...
...milk and grapefruit with honey, and at the same time to eliminate their cost. It has decided to treat those frills as the luxuries they are, and no longer as indispensables. Happily the use of coupons in payment for extra orders cuts out unnecessary red tape. The complex of pink, white, and blue slips, which are now used only for statistical records, should definitely go. The real difficulty is not one of mechanics, nor is it unique to Harvard. The problem of popularizing the seemingly Spartan-like restrictions is only a reflection of what is going on all over...
There were bathrooms of pink marble with gold-plated washbasins; bedrooms done in beige and peach with four-posters decorated with petit-point insets. The smoking room sported a collection of trophies, including the stuffed heads of rhinos and antelopes, and a couple of completely stuffed turtles. A brace of stuffed trophies cheered the sick bay. Besides a suite for Mrs. Davies' daughter, Nedenia, there were staterooms for Mr. & Mrs. Davies, sleeping accommodations for 14 guests...