Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Term III Democrat: it traversed the plush gloom and sombre elegance of the old red-brick Blackstone Hotel; down the red-carpeted marble corridors to a spacious sitting room of candy-striped chairs, a crystal chandelier, a plumed, bustled lady of the English Regency, framed in the pink-&-gilt fireplace, delicately offering all comers a symbolic prize-a prickly rose. In this room operated dapper young Vic Sholis, Hopkins' secretary, and soft-spoken David K. Niles, the Janizariat's undercover man, who engineered the biggest financial coup of the 1936 campaign by wangling...
...draft-age applicant. Their fear: if a large number of new Quakers should presently appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World War I's wake, the Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 in its first decade to care for Europe...
...Baiter is built like a bull, keeps in the pink by playing tennis, handball and squash, stars as a pitcher on the softball team of Los Angeles station KHJ. Four years ago, in his sporting prime, he was agile enough to make the Olympic basketball team. A onetime high-school teacher from U. C. L. A., Baiter wrote action stories for the pulps, treated scripts for Universal before he was wired for sound. Inspired to take to the air by a broadcast of Alexander Woollcott, he arranged his sportscasts in a pattern as intricate as that of the Town Crier...
...assessments have been driving mortgage-holding institutions to accept sacrifice prices in order to clear their books of doubtful "assets" in foreclosed property. From January through May, unloaded Manhattan properties had plummeted from 80.6% to 73.3% of their assessed values. (Yet New York State Superintendent of Insurance Louis H. Pink, "handling the largest real-estate investment liquidation program in the history of this country," declared that 80% of those investing through New York certificate-issuing houses had not lost a cent...
...Working for the PWA; Working on the Project; Lost My Job on the Project; Don't Take Away My PWA ["Mr. President, listen to what I have to say; take away the whole alphabet, but don't take away the PWA"]. Columbia had a WPA Rag, a Pink Slip Blues low-moaned by oldtime Ida Cox. But WPA was different. Last week it was banned...