Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gassed-tickled pink...
Arthur Greenwood's resignation was long overdue. Attlee is expected to do more firing soon. Pink old Lord Addison, whose white hair looks like the blob of whipped cream on a strawberry sundae, is expected to be dumped from his Commonwealth relations job. A. V. Alexander may be shifted to make way for a more vigorous man in the Defense Ministry...
...hate to be an old bastard, but I want you to line up Lady Halpert and your Art section editor long enough for me to whisper something in their shell-pink ears. The reproduction of Knight's Farmhouse Gossip is a very poor copy of an original painting called A Secret. . . . The original was photographic in style and a hell of a lot better than the foul copy "originated" by Mr. Knight...
Generalissimo Joseph Stalin is getting an Ehrenhain (literally a "grove of honor" like those used by Teutonic tribes to worship Wotan). The Stalin Ehrenhain which is now being built by the Soviet Army in Treptow Park in Berlin's Soviet sector will be dominated by a huge pink marble statue of the Generalissimo. The entire installation will be surrounded by a Kremlinlike wall...
Morning Afters. The story that goes with the pictures is spun out in disarmingly unliterary prose, a kind of sardonic self-portrait of a Matthew Brady in paratrooper's boots. It is held together by an elusive, improbable and unresolved love story involving a pink-haired British girl named Elaine (he called her Pinky) and interspersed with morning-after recollections of nights before spent with more-or-less real people with names like Ernie Pyle, Quentin Reynolds and Ernest. Hemingway. At worst, the text can hardly spoil the pictures-or spoil the illusion that all photographers are exasperating...