Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine was often hard to read, but-like Croly's tortured editorials, written in an agonized longhand-served its high purpose for 15 years: "to goad public opinion into being more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink, and his galaxy of talent flew apart. Often, under Bruce Bliven, the NR was peas-in-a-pod with the Nation and, for a brief period (1935), it adhered to a Marxist line.* By the time Willard Straight's son joined the staff, Croly's shadow on the magazine...
...world's richest branch banking system was spending the winter as befitted his station-amid the surf-edged, palm-shaded luxury of the Breakers Hotel. Certain necessary trappings of state were in evidence-telegrams were delivered, long distance calls put through, and a fitting number of moist, pink vice presidents arrived to intone, "Yes, A.P.," at proper intervals...
...Indian leader after another entered the pink and white viceregal palace in New Delhi. Inside, he was whisked to the second floor by an elevator, and ushered across an acre of anteroom to a small council chamber furnished simply, except for one gold brocade settee. There, hour after hour, the one-eyed, stocky Viceroy, Lord Wavell, aged, infirm Lord Pethick-Lawrence, jolly A. V. Alexander and smiling, schoolmasterish Sir Stafford Cripps heard their visitors out. They were listening avidly for the answer to one question: would India's passionately disunited factions unite to receive and use their freedom...
B.S.A.A., with the old British fire in its pink Socialist eye, talked about 24-hour service from London to rival Pan American's projected one-day Constellation schedule from New York to Buenos Aires. Last week, B.S.A.A.'s glamor boy and general manager, Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, was reported souping up a Mosquito in London to show that it could be done...
...body; fresh food brings added minerals and vitamins, and the individual picks up. The result is a jerky, uphill climb to summer's expansive wellbeing. Spring fever, says Dr. Petersen, is the irregular cycle of alternating days of elation and fatigue, until the body has regained its pink of condition...