Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strictly Pink Tea. Lieut. Commander White, very much on guard, decided to stay on the bridge with the Jap captain during the search. For two and a half hours they held what White called "a strictly pink-tea conversation." The Jap captain, who said he had spent ten years in New York City as a youth, asked how the New York Yankees were doing, wanted to know if Babe Ruth was still alive, said he missed American movies and magazines. (When they went back to their ship, the Americans sent over some old copies of TIME and the Reader...
Bess Truman, who has not yet been labeled pink, white, or red by the Russophobe press,, calmly accepted membership in a new organization set up to replace books destroyed by the Nazis in Russia. Her jawbreaking title: Honorary Chairman of the English Classics Collection of Books for Russian War Relief...
...finally dawned on them that D.D.T. was the root of the trouble,* the worried patient relaxed and was able to go to work. Unlike the doomed fly, his health gradually returned. But even now, a year later, he is still not willing to admit that he is in the pink...
...sensational model was the "Merry Widow'': a sophisticated cocktail dress in heavy black crepe, with a short clinging skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
...Ayen in bedraggled St. Germain, France, stands a bright, pink, three-story schoolhouse. In its library are $25,000 worth of books. Its music room has an electric phonograph and a big collection of classical records. Its basement hums with lathes and its upper floors are alive with the clatter of typewriters and sewing machines. Last week the school awarded its first graduation, certificates-to WACs, for their proficiency in beauty culture...