Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prohibitionists already had their own man. The Prohibition Party's presidential nominee was Dr. Claude A. Watson, 62, onetime minor league ballplayer, now a Free Methodist preacher in Los Angeles. This was pink-cheeked Dr. Watson's second try; he polled 75,000 votes in 1944. He opened his 1948 campaign last week with a barnstorming tour of dry Kansas, flying in his own plane. He hoped to do better this time. Said he: "If the church people vote like they pray and if the prohibitionists stand fast . . . I will be the next President...
Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia is Mr. Big No. 3 of Indian Big Business.* He owns six newspapers, an airline, a big insurance company, a bank and most of India's cement factories. He also has four wives. Last month Businessman Dalmia, a Hindu, summoned the press to pink lemonade, vanilla ice cream and green gage plums on the lawn of his big house in New Delhi. Then he read a 2,500-word statement. "I ask that people treat the cow and look after it as well as they look after their mother."† Soon thereafter, his six newspapers began...
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...watercolors exhibited in San Francisco were the originals (insured at $1,000 apiece) for eight volumes of Herbier Général de I'Amateur. Most were of wild flowers, less than half of them native to France. There were scabiosa from the Caucasus, pink periwinkles from Madagascar, sow thistle from the Canary Islands, chrysanthemums and yellow jasmine from China, lilacs from western Asia, and even some California wild flowers collected by a Russian expedition, taken to St. Petersburg and eventually transplanted to Paris. Even in reproduction, no hotelkeeper had anything like...
Married. Herman Shumlin, 48, bald, bespectacled, parlor-pink Broadway producer (Watch on the Rhine, The Male Animal); and Carmen England, 33, onetime screen bit player; he for the second time, she for the third; in Santa Monica...