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Word: pinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Towering, silver-haired, pink-faced Sir William Davison, 69, is a peppery, ultra-conservative M.P. who looks like an Esquire illustration of elderly, tweedy correctness. He is also a great believer in the power of thought. "I am no crank," says he, "but if people all over the world wished and willed the same thing at the same time there would be a great deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rejected Thought | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...experts on the U. S. hinterland set sail for South America to interpret themselves (and the U. S. hinterland) to Latins. Grizzled Author Sherwood Anderson (Home Town) headed for Chile; eager, pink-cheeked Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town) expected to fill lecture-appointments under State Department auspices in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 10, 1941 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...Ishii is a pink-cheeked, affable, stogy-smoking diplomat who was once (1929-30) Japanese Consul in New York. Last December he became spokesman for the Japanese Cabinet, replacing the somewhat less affable Foreign Office spokesman, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, short, swart Yakichiro Suma. Last week Diplomat Ishii talked the Japanese Foreign Office into a lot of trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Adventures in a Dove's Nest | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Already groups of short, swarthy French mannequins, whose figures and complexions resemble those of swank Latin women, are touring South America under Nazi auspices, showing models flown in German and Italian planes from conquered Paris. The tall, slender, pink-&-white-complexioned Willingdon mannequins will show models just created by the London branches of Worth, Paquin, Molyneux and Lachasse, plus others by Norman Hartnell, Victor Stiebel, Digby Morton, Peter Russell and tweedy Creed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mannequins of Empire | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Included in the collection, which was assembled on the basis of esthetic beauty, are large West Indian snails, Philippine oysters, with white and pink spines growing from the shells. Philippine "cones", which in life contain snails with poisoned teeth, Austrian clams, and examples of the pearly nautilus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Recent Gift of Sea Shells | 2/27/1941 | See Source »

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