Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strayed & Lost. Near San Francisco, five little lambs, their fleece dyed pink, blue, orange, green and yellow, returned to the farm after a stint in a city show window, found themselves coldly, completely snubbed by the rest of the flock- including the black sheep...
...Pink-cheeked and apparently free from all bourgeois academic worries, the Puritans preached a Thoreauesque "take to the woods and fields" sermon in between numbers. The squirrels agreed...
Last; week some 25,000,000 Japanese trudged to drab, dank schoolhouses and temples, brightened here & there with red and pink plum blossoms and fragrant daphne. For the first time they were electing their local officials-village and town headmen and mayors, prefectural governors (previously, local administrators have been appointed by Tokyo...
There is a fine gaudy pageant called Once Upon a Time, in which Sinbad, Gulliver, Aladdin, Don Quixote, Rip van Winkle, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel walk, drive, or ride elephant-back to Cinderella's wedding. Then 52 girls in brilliant billowing pink, hanging by a wrist in midair, do a stylish cancan...
...that Evelyn is a looker. She stands a solid 6 ft. in heels and hairdo, looks a well-seasoned 30 even in kindly after-dinner light. But as she drifts regally between tight-packed tables, cased in her working harness (a high-necked, pink-&-blue job by Sophie of Saks, encrusted from top to toe with 20 pounds of bead-work), Evelyn suggests a youthful Magda Lupescu. And when she finds a suitable ringside male, she manages to convey, crooning to the poor Joe from a good six feet off, that she is twisting her fingers in his hair...