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Word: pinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mural, full of social significance and figures of ample-bosomed, pensive women. Those great art critics, the Washington correspondents, have never agreed about its social significance, but they are sure that the guy in the right-hand corner is making soft talk to the bare foot woman in pink. One day last week a big crowd of them stood brooding before it when a side door opened and into the room walked Frank Murphy, elevated that morning from the Attorney-Generalship to the Supreme Court of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Pattern | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Died. Guy W. (for Warren) Ballard, 60, onetime mining engineer, more recently (with his priestess wife) the "Accredited Messenger of the Ascended Masters of the Mighty I AM Presence" (a psycho-religious cult abjuring alcohol, narcotics, tobacco, onions, garlic); from a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Grey-haired, pink-tied, white-suited Messenger Ballard owned and drove, with Wife Edna and Son Donald, four high-priced, canary-yellow automobiles, one with a concert harp strung on behind, spreading through the U. S. the doctrine of I AMery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Madison, the Union threw discretion to the winds, turned from pink to bright red. Under the influence of its well-disciplined Communists, the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pink to Red | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Student Union is finished." So proclaims the Herald Tribune. "At Madison, the Union . . . turned from pink to bright red." So declares Time. Even the New Republic, publishing an article by Harvard's Irwin Ross, admits that the recent national convention may result in "isolation of the ASU from the main body of students in the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOSCOW, WISCONSIN | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Lydia Marakova (Massey) is a pink singer in old St. Petersburg. Her father and brother are Reds. Despite these home influences, Lydia is irresistibly attracted when Prince Karagin (Eddy) begins a kittenish courtship which would set the teeth of a more experienced young woman on edge. Red family friends of Lydia reward Prince Karagin for arranging her operatic debut by shooting his father. Off goes Lydia to Siberia. Off goes Prince Karagin to World War I, the big moment of which comes on Christmas Eve, when Karagin carols Silent Night from the Russian trenches while the Austrians across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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