Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line Conservatives such stuff was dyed deeper than pink. But the Tory progressives had strong men in their camp. Able Richard Austen Butler, as chairman of the pamphlet-writing group, not only pulled together the suggestions of Eccles and others, but sold The Industrial Charter to Winston Churchill and the Tory "shadow cabinet." It was Butler who expounded the pamphlet's thesis at press conferences. Observers said Butler was the man who deserved most credit for the organizational side of the Tory revival...
...brightly-emblazoned jumper motif, Ccedrice waddled from a strategic puddle in the Square. "Of course I always rely on the impeccable taste of Lockit Company. Look here," he exclaimed, producing a clipping from a convenient quack in his ducky attire. "Harvard will be wearing purple guppies on pink underdrawers for the summer season. You bet I'll own them," he gurgled. "They give me such a feeling...
High Prices. "The little man with the red face and short arms stops jumping up and down. Then he nudges the man standing next to him, says: 'How's golf been, Harry?' Before Harry can answer, a redheaded messenger dashes up, hands him a pink slip. Harry reads it close to his chest, yells: 'Sell July one. Sell July one.' The red-faced man and a dozen other traders rush him, wave their hands at him, shout in his face, scream in his ears, tug at his sleeves, dance up and down before his eyes...
What do they do on a rainy day in Britain? Last week, the cables of the Associated Press were humming with the news. They play hink pink. How? Well, one Briton says to another, "Hink pink, convict?" If the other is quick on the trigger, he answers smartly: "Bad lad!" "Hink pink, sculpture," might draw the reply: "Bust trust." For advanced players the game can run into two syllables. Samples: "Hinky pinky, Palestine." Answer: "Skittish British." Possible, but inadvisable except for postgraduates, is the three-syllable challenge: "Hinkitty pinkitty, no more Molotov." The answer would, of course, be: "Bevinly Heavenly...
Said a British psychiatrist, caught red-handed playing hink pink last week with a doctor, a radio writer and a journalist: "It can be frightfully intellectual...