Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held out a three-foot-long sweet potato, and Harry Truman gravely inspected it. He laughed at the brash jokes of a midget master of ceremonies, watched a team of husky girl dancers in pink scanties, closely followed three horse races, presented a cup to the winning jockey of "The President Truman Derby...
...spring-fever time in the enchanted forest-scene of James Thurber's latest excursion into the world of fantasy. The rabbits tipped their heads, as men tip their hats, "removing them with their paws and putting them back again." A pink comet flashed by, missing the world by inches. The air was full of the tinkling of musical mud, the roar of barking trees, the flight of wingless birds. In fact, everything was just as usual...
King Clode summoned the Royal Astronomer (who studied the solar system through pink lenses), the Royal Clockmaker (who kept his sundials in the shade and whose clocks wouldn't strike twelve), and the Royal Recorder (who never let courtiers borrow the History of Sorcery from the Royal Library without first filling out a slip...
...Pink-faced, burly Burl has been on location for eight weeks at Kanab, Utah. In a rumpled, tan coat, baggy pants, and a red bandana around his throat, he looks more like a studio hand than a new star. Now about to be given a big Hollywood push, he well remembers his last trip to Hollywood, fresh out of the Army. He got a runaround. Says he: "Boy, it sure beats all the way they throw jobs at you when you finally land a good one, and the way they hide jobs on you when you haven...
...readers of Grapes of Wrath who picture Oklahoma as a dusty breeding ground of hungry-eyed migrants, and for playgoers to whom Oklahoma! is a Hammerstein-Rodgers funfair of blond ballerinas and pink-cheeked cowboys, The Cherokee Strip will be an entertaining antidote...