Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fabulous old mine, the flowers will still be growing in sheets of gold & blue & pink-petal to petal, as John Muir once said...
...Angeles, citizens scarcely raise their eyebrows at sights that seem bizarre in other U. S. cities. On downtown streets they have grown accustomed to seeing women in pink pants & mink coats, sober grownups dodging in & out of traffic on motorized scooters, family sedans with Gospel quotations gold-lettered on their doors. Last week, Los Angelenos acquired another anomaly. Hereafter, when they go to the fights at the Olympic Auditorium, they will see a woman referee in the ring...
...Said the Pink Reporter recently, "The Ayers tribe are skunky eggs. For instance, Ben Moulton, now a member of the grafting state liquor crooks ... by the grace of a drunken so-called governor, [State Senator] Dale Woods . . . and one L. M. A. Wass . . . are all former chums of Whiskey Ayers, and all just as corrupt, including [State Senator] H. H. 'Haywire' Haight...
Ayers and his friends read these sizzling words, saw pink. The Governor himself swore out and signed a warrant charging that this was criminal libel. Complainants: Governor Ayers, Ben Moulton, Senator Woods, Senator Haight. Tip Reynolds was arrested at Three Forks, taken to Bozeman, 30 miles away, locked up in the Gallatin County jail...
There, last week, Editor Reynolds, in a spacious cell that looked out on one of Montana's traveling gallows, awaited trial. Nobody knows where the Pink Reporter is printed. It has been farmed out to various print shops in Montana, now comes (according to rumor) from a press somewhere in North Dakota. Not a copy was to be found last week on Montana newsstands. But in his cell in Gallatin County jail was a long table covered with pencils and copy paper, and Tip Reynolds at week's end was busily editing his next issue...