Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were hard at work studying the Bible. In the chapel at the rear of the house, a music class was in progress; a Berliner was at the piano, an English girl played the viola; a boy from Silesia whittled away at the violin. In a small side room a pink-cheeked Yugoslav and a chubby Hollander were boning up on the Epistles. The International Bible Training Institute was beginning its fourth year...
...similarities, however, the two books are very different in tone. "The White Dear" was a light-hearted story that made fun of the entourage of King Clode: the Royal Physician who was always taking his own pulse and not telling himself what it read, the Royal Astronomer who saw pink comets brushing by the earth through his pink-colored glasses, and all the rest. It was a smiling, sophisticated fairy story...
...Wilbur, Monday night. Called "Let's Make an Opera," it is a fantastic melee of play, opera, and community sing which you won't believe until you see. At one point during the evening the traditionally stony Boston audience shouts for a full minute "To-whoo," "Kaaah," "Prrrooo," and "Pink! Pink! Pink...
Last week at the little (pop. 2,560) farming town of Dawson Springs, Ky., the 57th annual trials of the National Foxhunters Association were held with some 900 of the country's top foxhounds in competition. The unspeakables were an oddly assorted group ranging from pink-coated riders to gallused mountaineers. The uneatables were the sly red foxes that abound in the region. The full pursuit was a well-organized chase, not necessarily to catch the fox, but to find out which hound could best stand the gaff of the rugged, three-day test...
...American hospitality, concluded Oxonian Robinson, "I raise a foaming mug of pink ice-cream in ginger-beer (the national beverage) and pledge my sincere gratitude. But a Bronx cheer for the neons, the nylons, and the nut-melbas-each one of the Twenty-Eight Flavours-and Odo-ro-no, Times Square, the subways, the Empire State, drugstores, candy and campuses ... O Lord...