Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this relentless crusade, pink-faced, bright-eyed, dapper Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, dentist, teacher, founder and president of the Non-Smokers Protective League of America, was pursuing his idea of beauty. Said he: "Oh, if the human race would but live right, what a beautiful people the human race would...
Washington newshawks, case-hardened characters who measure a public man by the probable length of his obituary, last week sentimentally chipped in $7, bought a seven-pound, four-layer White Mountain cake topped with white, pink and green icing, with 21 large pink candles rakishly atilt in pink rosebud holders...
...world, itself a mere 300-year-old moppet in the history of art, last week met and ogled a baby brother. The baby brother was Australian art, a bouncing 150-year-old. The meeting took place on the ground floor of Washington's pink marble National Gallery, where a thousand curious visitors assembled for the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of work by Australian painters ever shown...
...graduates between 18 and 50; it takes 80 hours of training, at least 150 hours a year of volunteer hospital work. The goal: 100,000 aides. Twenty-two Red Cross chapters have started classes, 124 more will start soon. Graduates, who work in civilian hospitals, schools and clinics, wear pink uniforms, are called, by the Red Cross, "pink ladies...
Accompanying the "pink" boys and girls, I found that they were sometimes greeted by, "Get out. So you want my husband to join the CIO! Get out!", well garnered with expletives in Italian, Swedish or American. Usually I found that the workers received the students very hospitably and would often invite us in for dinner, tea, or a drink of Italian wine...