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Word: pinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little podium, weedy with microphones. Close at hand stood the President's mother in a black hat, a black coat with silver-fox collar, and his wife, in a black broadtail coat and black hat with a feather. On the other side, reflectively surveying his domain, stood pink-cheeked Boss Ed Flynn. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in gleaming top hat and Chesterfield coat, thoughtfully chewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Third Term Begins | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Henry Wallace appeared, brushed and beaming, looking sure of himself; with him John Nance Garner, his little apple-cheeks pink in the cold, his eyebrows like small puffs of Texas cotton. The band broke into Hail to the Chief, and the President walked slowly forward from the shadows of the rotunda, leaning on the arm of Son James resplendent in the Marine Corps's red, gold and blue uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Third Term Begins | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British Columbia's round, pink Thomas Dufferin Pattullo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Farewell to Reform | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...result of all this high-priced maladjustment is terribly funny, terribly upper class. No one could have written it better than Playwright Barry, who has written it often (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, et al.}. No one could have adapted it better than pink-faced, pink-thinking Scenarist Donald Ogden Stewart. Both writers learned the proper inflections of the polite in the best clubs at Yale. Woven into their saga of the supertaxed is a thorough discussion of snobbery, from which they spring to the conclusion that it is possible to have money and social position and still be nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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