Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anesthetist began his nocturnal visitations two weeks ago, mainly concentrating his fiendish attacks on women. One said a smell like gardenias "made her legs tingle." Another said a fat man had squirted perfume into her bedroom. Mrs. Carl Cordes discovered a damp pink cloth on her back porch. She sniffed it and immediately "felt as though a charge of electricity had gone through me." She was taken to a hospital with burns and temporary paralysis...
...Illinois Criminal Investigation Laboratory sent an investigator named Richard T. Piper to Mattoon to get the pink cloth from Mrs. Cordes' porch. The laboratory could find no indications of gas or other chemicals upon it. Piper sat up all night reading chemistry books and announced the next day that the anesthetist was probably using chloropicrin, a heavy, colorless liquid made by chlorinating picric acid...
...Dogs. The prospect of the Browns winning to give St. Louis its first streetcar World Series (Chicago has had one, New York five) had faded from rosy red to pale, pale pink. St. Louisans, having had a lot of fun while it lasted, sat back to admire the vastly superior Cardinals, riding to their third consecutive National League pennant on a 161-game lead. But there was at least one St. Louis citizen who still believed in the Browns. Blake Harper, concessionaire at Sportsman's Park, was busy preparing a Browns' World Series program, had ordered...
Hellcat's Father. The father of the Hellcats is a medium-sized, 49-year-old man. He has a pink face, seamed with hundreds of tiny wrinkles, sharp, bright blue eyes, sandy red hair and the twanging voice of a New England storekeeper. He is stoop-shouldered and extraordinarily shy, moves about as if he hopes no one will notice him. A Navy flyer, meeting him for the first time, said: "You don't look like the guy who builds Hellcats." Roy Grum man looks more like the suburban fellow who lives next door...
...nurseries for the children of women workers, libraries with the book shelves economically made from old packing cases, an employes' orchestra to play for dancing during the lunch hour, volley ball, handball and base ball games. To the parents of new babies go record books, blue for boys, pink for girls. On Christmas, turkeys are sent free to everyone. This year, to make sure of getting them, Grumman bought the eggs and is now in the turkey business...