Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Andrew Jameson, 85, pink-cheeked, buffalo-hunting chairman of John Jameson & Son, Ltd., makers of Irish whiskey; in Dublin. "I was reared on Jameson's whiskey," he once observed...
...Capades of 1941. Last week in Washington, D. C., President Roosevelt's iceman opened the biggest ice rink in the East (225 by 90 feet) with another touring frostbite fiesta called Ice-Capades of 1941. A super iceman is robust, pink-cheeked, Dutch-born Migiel John Uline, 63. At 18 he ran his own ice route in Cleveland. A decade ago he settled in Washington where delivery often consisted of the dumping of cakes on the sidewalk and no crushed or cubed ice was sold...
...Tough, pink-cheeked Charles Erwin Wilson, 50, new president of General Motors, went skating at his country home in Oakland County, Mich., fell and broke his hip. Muttered Motorsman Wilson, preparing to do business for a while from his hospital bed: "It was just one of those skating accidents. I slipped...
Mary, 18, is plump, pink-cheeked, Catholic, the daughter of a musician who deserted his family for a chorus girl. Mary has a part-time NYA job, goes to evening college, not because she likes to study but because she believes it gives her prestige. She also shows her insecurity by constantly changing her hairdo. Mary likes to dance, mortally hates & fears being kissed by boys (a transfer of resentment against her father). Eventually, assured by her interviewer that there was no harm in kissing, Mary learned to like...
...election frauds (TIME, Jan. 6) was to invite the Radicals in on the fraud. Some said that Pinedo was impelled by an ultimatum from Washington: no political stability, no more loans. Buenos Aires' great La Prensa boomed that the fraud was directed from the President's Pink House. The English-language Standard and the evening Noticias Gráficas called for Pinedo's resignation...