Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. WPAdministrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington, 53, onetime Colonel of Army Engineers; week after an operation for an intestinal obstruction; in New London, Conn.; with Harry Hopkins at his bedside...
...Wheeler sat lunching from a tray with a spare, tall, white-mustachioed Scotsman, who had asked to see him. The Senator's mistrustful eyes looked grimmer and grimmer as he heard what his visitor had to say. But he listened on. His visitor was an eminent British economist, pink-cheeked, 72-year-old Sir George Paish. Three hours later, as the Scotsman took his leave, Senator Wheeler turned an amazed stare on two stenographers in the reception room outside, exclaimed: "What do you think that old gentleman just told...
...newly born mice, with eyes still closed and nice and pink" might refer to two sets of three blind mice: Great Britain, France and the U. S. and Germany, Italy and Russia, who in Asiatic eyes are newly born countries, blind to realities staring them in the face where Japan is concerned...
...Revolutionary getup which was supposed to make her resemble Paul Revere (see cut,p.11). Calling herself Pauline Revere, Miss Summers admonished the U. S.: "MOBILIZE FOR PEACE-DEFEAT CONSCRIPTION." Said alliterative Papa Summers (who in 1938 denounced Communists for luring his son Thane to death in Loyalist Spain): ". . . My pink daughter ... [on] a white horse ... a pretty puppet is paraded to propagandize against American preparedness . . . [by] Stalin's subtle stooges...
...from the Treasury bench rose round, pink-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood-known to the House as "The Cherub." In a clear tenor voice he piped: "What I want is cash." And for the next 91 minutes, speaking from notes written in his own hand, taped up in little bundles, one for each phase of his speech, he presented Great Britain with the heaviest budget in her history...