Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia. It was Peter's cherished window to the sea. It was the place where Tchaikovsky and Dostoevski and Mussorgsky lived and were buried. It was the home of the divine Kshesinskaya, the ballerina whom Nicholas II loved. It was the city of grey and pink granite, of Rastrelli's baroque Winter Palace, Catherine the Great's classicism, Alexander I's low-lying "architectural landscapes." At its Imperial Opera, Prince Igor had its première. Rembrandt's Polish Nobleman hung in its Hermitage. It was the town where skylarks sang, in whose parks birches...
Franklin Roosevelt smiled and thanked him. The little rotund, stooped, pink-faced, bulldog-jawed Britisher, his visored cap askew over the remnants of sandy yellow hair that once was red, stood beaming, like a deceptively diffident cherub. The tall, easy-mannered American, with a jaw just as stubborn, stood with his huge shoulders thrown back, his head cocked on one side, as it always is when he meets something new and important...
...blow for craft unions representing editorial employes only. Members of A.N.W.A. retorted that only 70 Guild votes came from strictly editorial staffmen, and inferred that, barring stenographers, stockroom boys, morgue clerks, etc., Times editorial employes actually preferred a craft union-or at least were against the Guild's pink leadership-by three...
...year-old daughter in her country home in Hertfordshire, first to plain volunteer, then to Chief A.T.S. Recruiter, then to idea-woman, inspecting camps, grooming lady officers, clearing up gaffs such as the male Army command referring to A.T.S. passes: "Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service will show their pink forms whenever called upon to do so." Last week, as Chief Controller, she became Britain's top-ranking...
Borda built palaces for himself in Taxco, Cuernava.ca, Mexico City; he built a paved road all the way across the mountains to the capital; and for $1,680,000 he built Taxco's lovely pink parroquia, particularly interesting among Mexico's colonial churches because it was completed by the men who began it. Borda, a heavy speculator, went broke several times before he went broke for good. But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped. The gold...