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Word: pink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...must be a pleasure to the Freshman whose first days in College have been all concerned with registrations, consultations, pink cards, yellow cards and the like, to see a Harvard tome (be it ever so slender) which bears on its cover so cheering a motto...

Author: By Hermann Hagrdorn., | Title: Review of Current Lampoon | 10/6/1909 | See Source »

...CRIMSON team is unusually fast being particularly strong in batting, and clever in executing the "squeeze play," and hugging the bags. Trainer Donovan has declared the men in the pink of condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contest for Journalistic Supremacy | 5/25/1909 | See Source »

...brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort, can readily be shattered without recourse to the more than bromidic--the bromidiac -- near-brilliant pink-shirt-stud. The other story in this number, "The Woman Who Wasn't," is no more nor less than it pretends to be--a quasi tragedy growing out of a purely physical situation...

Author: By H. DEW. Fuller ., | Title: Mr. Fuller's Review of Monthly | 1/29/1908 | See Source »

...Fleshings and a White Pony" contains the elements of a good story, but the setting is badly chosen. It seems hardly likely that even a circus rider would pour out the secrets of her heart to an utter stranger with the freedom with which the lady of the pink tights and the white pony is made to tell her story; and the insistence upon the setting by references to the passing crowds of trippers and the sights and sounds of a seaside resort seems forced and mechanical. Mr. Schenck's "Psychical Research" is rather well told, but the conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Criticism of Current Advocate | 1/28/1908 | See Source »

...hard, paying especial attention to the forward passes and the defense. No particular changes have been made in the line-up. T. A. D. Jones, at quarterback, is out of the game for a few days, suffering from a leg injury. The rest of the team are in the pink of condition. Scrimmages against the college and freshman elevens have been held daily and a large corps of graduate coaches have been supervising the various departments of the game. On three consecutive days the heavy freshman team has scored on the first eleven. On Saturday Yale defeated the Pennsylvania State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter | 10/25/1906 | See Source »

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