Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worker. Walpole, to the manor born, worked for the good of the landed gentry. A high liver, a great man for the ladies, he was also a follower of the hounds. Bachelor Mackenzie King lives austerely. Though he has been known to ride, he would be miserable in a pink coat...
Personal Traits. A big (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.), smiling, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed Westerner, with thinning grey hair and an easy, friendly manner, he specializes in the homely, forthright phrase, a booming laugh, and a bone-crushing handshake; wears well-tailored blue, grey or brown suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
Visitor from the South. But politics raised its head immediately. A Mrs. Lennard Thomas of Montgomery, Ala. adjusted a floppy black hat adorned with pink plumes, gave the President "some little Southern pats" to attract his attention, and engaged him in conversation on his civil rights program. It went, said Mrs. Thomas later, like this...
Arrested also was the pink and plump 71-year-old Pauline, Princess of Württemberg, who sheltered them in their escape and established them in Bebenhausen, part of her former domain. When told that she could go out on bail, the cigar-smoking princess tickled her nurse and rocked with glee. The pair she sheltered will be turned over to U.S. authorities...
...been too successful. U.S. trappers do not know much about preparing them. The Wildlife Service hopes that the quality will improve as trappers get nutria-wise. In any event, the nutria will be a welcome immigrant. Unlike many furbearers, most of which (e.g., skunks) are carnivorous, its flesh is pink and good to eat. A carcass prepared for cooking weighs about eight pounds. Some compare it to rabbit. When roasted, say other connoisseurs, it is like suckling...