Word: brownish
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...brownish-gray walls of broad weave and the walnut background of the show cases bring out the delicate colorings of the Chinese pottery which are in most museums lost in the glare of a white-walled room. This is well illustrated in the Korean Room where there is much pottery from 5th and 13th century tombs. The vases and bowls have a unique inlay which the Chinese were never able to achieve. This inlay gives them an extra richness when it is seen with the faint blues and greens of the ordinary glazed ware. This extra richness and beautiful coloring...
...well-cared-for grounds of the British Embassy in Washington one day last week a gardener noticed a great number of odd insects among the flowers and shrubs. He had never seen any creatures like these in England. They were a dingy brownish black, with spiny forelegs and large, staring eyes. Their legs were orange and their wings, which spread three inches when open, bore dark markings resembling the letter "W." The gardener took news of his discovery to plump, grey-haired Lady Lindsay, wife of moose-tall Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Lady Lindsay suggested telephoning to the Department...
...this morning and was glad at my heart to open my eyes on such a beautiful blue sky and to hear the happy voices of children already playing in the street below. And as I did turn towards the case ment I saw thereupon, in its winter garb of brownish cream-buff spots, a chattering Starling who did strut back and forth in most serious-like manner. And I did guess his errand. Indeed, little one, was my heart most wont to say, I, too, sense the difference. But all will be well; soon we shall cast those bells...
Second ($600) and third ($500) prizes went respectively to Gardenville, N. Y.'s Charles Burchfield for a large brownish watercolor of a logger's shed in a gloomy cypress swamp in wintertime, and to Woodstock's Henry Mattson for a seascape of wild waves and seagulls painted in fuzzy Cezannesque technique...
...hands and feet, and sometimes to the palms and soles. It becomes more abundant during the subsequent days, but it is seen very rarely on the face and forehead. It is at first composed of pink spots which disappear on pressure, but soon these become purplish, more deeply brownish red, and finally fade into a brown color. ... A symptom of considerable importance, early and rarely missed, is the severe headache which is apt to be more unbearable in this disease than in other acute fevers. . . . When the rash, together with fever and headache, delirium and extreme weakness, is clearly described...