Word: pinks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Memento. In Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. H. F. Morse asked city garbage-disposal officers to help her retrieve a pink girdle from the city dump, explained that it was an item "of great sentimental value...
...wore long white kid gloves, bangs, and white dresses with pink and blue sashes. The opera was a polite and serious affair. In subsequent years, in going to the opera we have always felt it to be something of a rite, and it was with a feeling akin to guilt, even in later years, that either my sister or myself entered the refreshment room for a discreet cup of coffee...
Bill of Particulars. The stockholder group was formed by plump, pink-faced Clendenin J. Ryan, 42, well-heeled grandson of the late great financier, Thomas Fortune Ryan. Allied with Ryan were Allan Kirby, financial angel of Railroader Robert R. Young, and Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young and a veteran of his proxy battles. Ryan, a heavy investor in l.T. & T. (he now owns over 100,000 shares), was aroused when he failed to get a representative on l.T. & T.'s board. He declared...
...Ride the Pink Horse. An agreeable melodrama starring Robert Montgomery, who also directs (TIME...
...Pink-faced, aggressive little John Ward Studebaker, the onetime Des Moines school superintendent who is now U.S. Commissioner of Education, had been looking at the figures. Only four out of ten U.S. children finish high school, only one out of five who finish high school goes to college. But most of the 25,000 U.S. high schools were still acting as if all their kids intended to go to college. Studebaker believes that educational reverence for the "whitecollar myth" produces frustrated and maladjusted citizens. Why not frankly admit that most girls would be housekeepers and most men mechanics, farmers...