Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pink String and Sealing Wax stars Googie Withers, who was none too careful about that cleavage (see cut). The Hollywood Codists-who convinced themselves that Hollywood's Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice were morally clean-have raised eyebrows over the British picture's theme: premeditated murder...
...pink and green Embassy Room of Chicago's Morrison Hotel one morning last week the members of the Cook County Democratic Committee were in their seats by 10 o'clock. They were there to witness the beginning of the end of a political dynasty. As they waited, the room grew rank and grey with smoke and politicians' talk. Three quarters of an hour late, the Boss-Mayor Edward J. Kelly- strode in. The committeemen put down their racing forms and clapped...
...minded professor of the art of power. But Salazar was a virtuous man-selfless, intelligent, efficient. If despotism could be benevolent, Salazar's character was ideal material for "the good dictator." Born at Santa Comba Dao, not far from Europe's second oldest university, in a typical pink-walled Portuguese Village, he had made such good marks in grade school that his peasant mother, whom he worshiped, called him "the little priest." He entered a seminary, but later decided he had no vocation for the priesthood and became an economics instructor at Coimbra University...
This Hellenic salt and Christian pepper have seasoned all of Sir Richard's life & thought. Son of an Anglican canon, a classics don since his Oxford graduation (1903) and onetime vice-chancellor of Belfast University, Sir Richard at 65 is a man with a straggly mustache, pink complexion and owlish eyes peering over gold-rimmed spectacles. Livingstone stalks across the Oxford quadrangles, mortarboard jammed squarely on his thinning hair, his black M.A. gown flowing, his chin thrust well forward...
...Pink-haired Van Johnson, cashing in on his early experience as a Broadway chorus boy, amazes his public by singing and dancing. As romantic lead comedian, Van also makes love and makes like a wild duck. Esther Williams shows off her dramatic talents in elaborate gowns and her more notable gifts in a plain bathing suit. Competing for laughs, Keenan Wynn and Lucille Ball work so hard they seem bent on destroying themselves...