Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentina's White House is pink...
...gaudiest robe of the lot-a dark gown almost armored with gold braid-draped awkwardly on the huge round shoulders of the Chancellor of Bristol University. Winston Churchill. Near him, in the scarlet and salmon pink gowns of doctors of law, stood Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies of Australia and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
After three days of this, he went foxhunting on a Pennsylvania estate (where he turned up in brown jodhpurs and black boots among spick & span U. S. fox hunters in long-buttoned pink coats). Then he returned to Washington, to get on with his diplomatic calls, his conferences with State Department officials, his talks with the Embassy staff and members of British missions, and to go on at night with his reading of Sandburg's Lincoln and Freeman...
...Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original schedule, two in three years ahead of peacetime construction. The Navy was pleased about Corpus Christi...
...festival, the District Commissioners last week chose Nancy Alden Strong, 17, debutante daughter of Lieut. Colonel & Mrs. A. G. Strong. Her first duty: to brave the blasts of spring. Miss Strong, with no illusions about her job, showed up in a fur coat, carrying an extra coat-a pink sports number-for the pictures. Problem, as usual, was to find one of the famed cherry trees that was at least budding. The photographers and the Queen shinnied vainly up & down many a cold tree, peering for buds. At last they found one, and the 1941 Queen made history...