Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obscure tailor, Auguste Renoir was born exactly 100 years ago in the French porcelain-manufacturing city of Limoges. At the age of 14 he started his artistic career in Paris painting pink and blue flowers on teacups. He graduated to painting fans and devotional pictures for missionaries. When he entered the studio of Marc Charles Gabriel Gleyre, he soon ran afoul of his sober-minded teacher. Said Gleyre: "You seem to take painting as fun." Agreed Renoir, "If painting were not fun to me I should certainly...
...centred around the building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
Redhunters have long been eager to disrobe New York City's Teachers Union and College Teachers Union to see how pink they are underneath. Last week the unions' Reds got such a stripping that they had scarcely a rag left to cover their nakedness. There proved to be more Communist teachers in New York than even the Communists wanted...
...cold at Hialeah that lady railbirds tucked their winter tans into fur coats. Others huddled under blankets, shivered and wished they had stayed home in bed. Runaway breezes whipped the bright costumes of Seminole Indians squatting beneath the palms in the infield, parted the tail feathers of long-legged pink flamingos parading before the stands...
...despised and feared Communist armies began to use numbers and space. Under the Marx-mouthed name of total-mass protracted resistance they developed guerrilla warfare into a new military tactic. And in what was left of Shanghai, labor-loving Rewi Alley, Snow and others, cooked up the grandiose pink dream of China's Industrial Co-operatives British Ambassador Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr did the liaison work that began their reality...