Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plans for memorial buildings to house veterans' organizations blossomed everywhere. Georgia ex-servicemen hoped for $2,000,000 in state funds for an air-conditioned pink and white marble building. Cleveland veterans had ambitiously ordered architect's plans for a $7,000,000 structure; Detroit Legionnaires had raised $250,000. Many Legion posts dreamed hopefully of buildings with bowling alleys, cafeterias, auditoriums...
Most of the time the President was smiling, and the chill and the rain brought a pink glow to his face. At times he relaxed, and when he did so, the sallowness in his cheeks showed, and the heavy lines on his face; then he looked tired. Pictures of him smiling or tired were taken by all newspapers, and they made their selections according to their political sympathies (see cuts...
...scrapbook of life" over the radio, became a favorite of Los Angeles housewives. Last May he took his kitchen popularity into politics, trounced union-hating John M. Costello in the Democratic primary. Hollywood's liberal Democrats cheered. P.A.C. boasted nationally that this was their work. But these happy pink faces turned lobster red when Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner dug up the fact that Styles had been a Klansman in Queens County...
...train pulling Harry Truman's special car ground to a stop at flat, dusty Uvalde, Tex. As vestibule doors banged in the silence of the sunny afternoon, a little old man with a bright pink face came hurrying up to the train. It was ex-Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner, the copilot whom Franklin Roosevelt had dropped in 1940. John Garner, now 75, was wearing a worn work shirt, buttoned at the throat, a pair of dingy pants. There was an outrageous twisted rope of cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back...
Last week, contrary evidence was apparent on almost every college gridiron: pink-cheeked freshmen scurried and whirled out of the T formation to touchdown after touchdown. More than 50% of college coaches now start their football alphabet with a capital T. The other half burn midnight oil devising ways & means to stop it. Few have succeeded...