Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground but were shown to comfortable beds with snowy linen sheets. Japanese guided the Americans to MacArthur's headquarters in the New Grand Hotel on Yokohama's picturesque waterfront-the one part of the city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy lest the food and service be anything less than perfect. Houseboys brought cold bottles of beer and urged U.S. officers to drink their beer, shower...
...wartime, when the U.S. was footing the bill, brotherly love and production soared and sang at Cleveland's bountiful, brash Jack & Heintz, Inc., makers of plane equipment. Associates (employes) luxuriated in hot showers and Turkish baths, cheek by jowl with pink-jowled President William S. Jack, got free insurance and Florida vacations. Out of their sky-high wages ($5,000 a year and up) they gratefully sank $15,000,000 in preferred stock in Jahco to finance a still rosier postwar future. But peace and cutbacks brought trouble to this production paradise. By last week Jahco's eight...
Others shared his urge. Harvard's "Boaty" Sturgis, who wore a pink tie and reminded people of "a wild night in a florist's shop," trailed Estelle like a mooning spaniel. Wolfish Hugo Zachias, who had made a mint of money selling scrap iron to Japan, talked her into a weekend at his Spanish villa on Long Island. There were also jaded Bill Priest, who wrote scintillating advertisements for jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where...
After the reception, the guests adjourned to a $20,000 ballroom-a tent with wood floor-built on the lawn for the occasion. Pink-and-silver silk, matching Betty's gown, hid the ceiling; great chandeliers held masses of pink gladioli. Two 20-piece or chestras (Meyer Davis and Ruby Newman) played chaste, danceable music through the night...
...Exiled Spanish Republicans, sensing opportunity, composed many of their differences and set up a government in Mexico City under suave, sophisticated Diego Martinez Barrio as President and mild-mannered José Girál y Pereira as Premier. The new government's political complexion was a moderate pink, calculated to please Britain...