Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Jersey. At Pennsville, N.J., some 26 finalists prepared to jam large pink lumps of bubble gum into their mouths and see-for the prize of a U.S. Savings Bond-who can blow the biggest bubble. They have two minutes to do it in, plus an initial ten seconds to get the chew started. The "world championship" contest was designed to help promote the bubble gum industry, a $20 million a year business. Philadelphia alone exports each week 25 tons of gum to Japan, the Philippines, Italy, Hawaii-places which during World War II felt the cultural impact...
Salvos of artillery saluted her 50th birthday throughout the empire, but Britain's Queen Elizabeth saw in her second half-century quietly. At tea she sliced a small cake with pink and white icing, but no candles. In the evening a few close friends were invited to Sandringham to help the King toast her in champagne...
...child was still pink-cheeked and healthy, but her "span of attention was very short . . . Much of her fleet light running had no purpose-it was merely motion. Her eyes, so pure in their blue, were blank when one gazed into their depths. They did not hold or respond. They were changeless...
...most important people." He has good reason to think so; he claims to be the biggest U.S. manufacturer of baby foods.* His Gerber Products Co. last year grossed $42 million, netted $3,300,000. Babies are so important to President Gerber that he prints his annual report in pink & blue, with his own picture framed in a blue ribbon bow (see cut). Gerber follows the U.S. birthrate figures as eagerly as a Brooklyn fan scanning Dodger batting averages...
...mauve-decade Broadway actress (who numbered Ethel Barrymore among her understudies), haute monde interior decorator, international-set partygiver; in Versailles, France. She married Sir Charles Mendl after a long spinsterhood, lived into a fabulously sprightly old age, delighted gossip columnists with handstands at parties and hair dyes ranging from pink to vivid green...