Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corliss Lamont, deep-pink son of Morgan Partner Thomas, filed suit against Bobbs-Merrill Co., publisher of Eugene Lyons' The Red Decade for $100,000. Named by red-hating Lyons as a fellow traveler who defended Moscow's mass trials and executions, Lamont protested that Lyons had wrongfully classified him as a "stinker." Lyons retorted with a charge that Lamont, a Civil Liberties di rector, forced giant book-distributor Baker & Taylor to drop the book by threatening suit, a The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan...
Without seeking to detract in any way from the credit out pink playmates should get for their good order and discipline, I should like to point out that there was no likelihood whatever of any clash, and that when America First counter-pickets were sent out to prevent the Student Union from having a monopoly on the newspaper photographs, they were limited in number and given equally strict orders not to do any talking or anything else that might start trouble...
...Standard pajamas, identical in pattern, cut and price, will prove a headache. . . . Frequently a co-respondent's gaily-colored pajamas play a prominent part in a divorce suit. Evidence by a hotel chambermaid that she has seen a man in a room wearing pink pajamas would not help the court if all men were wearing pink pajamas...
Conquest of a Province. For a generation before the war Szechwan, richest, largest, most populous province of China, lived by itself. Warlords dominated it. They lived in great palaces equipped with foreign-style, pink, green and lavender-tiled bathrooms pleasing to their many concubines. The streets of their cities stank with opium. Szechwan was a pus-pocket in the nation from which poison seeped through all China. While Chiang built a modern central Government in the lower Yangtze Valley, the Szechwanese went their way almost untouched...
Smilin' through her teeth, redhaired, green-eyed, pink-cheeked Jeanette Mac-Donald, now a matronly 34, plays the dual role of Moony can, a 20th-Century damozel who is shot by a jilted swain (Gene Raymond) at her wedding to Brian Aherne, and Kathleen, the 20th-century ward of the aged bridegroom, who bitterly resents his ward's falling in love with the American son (Mr. Raymond again) of the scoundrel who shot his bride...