Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emancipated girls were in no hurry to leave the Yoshiwara. Said one resident: "With the terrible housing shortage we'd rather stay here." Only nine out of 310 prewar brothels, with their yellow balconies and pink window shades, had survived the B-29s. But shacks were being built with record speed. Business was booming, with about half the customers Americans...
...Armor & Pink Tights. Reviewer Shaw has nothing to say about the other five; to him Actress Ellen Terry is Topic A. The great Playwright conducted a long and passionate correspondence with the great Actress, but rarely met her-by a well understood agreement to keep everything platonic. Now, 17 years after Ellen's death, Shaw takes care to get it on record that there was nothing much between Watts and Ellen. Writes...
...picture, she crashed to the floor in a faint. Watts' middle-aged lady friends, who treated him as a tame prophet and his studio as a shrine, looked askance at bouncy Ellen, and when Watts' child-wife danced in on a dinner party dressed in pink tights, it was decided that she must go. Her later fame came as a faint shock to Watts...
Members of the Hunt in bright-colored coats whose facings identified their clubs (Warwick's black and scarlet, Duke of Beaufort's buff and blue, North Warwick's grey and pink) mingled with Yeomanry regiment officers in white Prussian collars and tailcoated nonhunters. They danced to American rhythms played by hot London nightclub bands, ate specially licensed delicacies, happily screamed "whroo, whroo"-the high-pitched cry given when the fox is sighted...
...rickety, five-story house on Manhattan's West 46th Street, well within earshot of Broadway's clatter and chatter, Variety last week passed its 40th birthday. To celebrate it, pink-cheeked, bow-tied Editor Abel Green, 44, and his staff went to press with a bulging, green-covered, 324-page anniversary number that was five-sixths advertising...