Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luftwaffe raid on her hotel in Palermo, she sat on the floor in her pink pajamas because falling plaster hurt her feet. She went back to bed before the raid was over...
...Pink Sitter. Natural bravado has seen modest, round-faced, contralto-voiced Frances Langford through a routine that would have ruined lesser women. She has ranged heartily from woolen underwear in Alaska to a halter-bra in Africa. During...
...1930s-the Supreme Court. To editorialists and cartoonists it seemed that strange things were happening in the marble palace where once sat the solemn Nine Old Men. Solemnly, the staid New York Times deplored "the unstable Court . . . with its recent astonishing record of dissents . . . confusion and uncertainty." Sardonic, pink-faced Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch took a slightly merrier view. He pictured the Justices as a bunch of middle-aged gamins, pinking one another's skulls with legal slingshots...
Sixty strong, they pushed into the Ohio Governor's small suite in the Mayflower Hotel. Here, after all the humdrum bureau interviews, was fair game: a real, live presidential candidate on a self-built bandwagon. The pink-cheeked candidate looked as if he expected a rough ride...
Thousands of trout fishermen west of the Mississippi use the pink-and-orange-dyed skeins of salmon eggs for bait (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, this little business was in trouble. Reason : WPB had cut off its supply of glass containers...