Word: buff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having provided the future business man of the country with a modern Utopia over the river with all conveniences, not forgetting cheerful dining establishments with buff and rose wall patterns and lacquered panelings, it is contemplated that the finishing touch would be supplied if the graduate business man could meditate over his favorite pipe of tobacco, whether it be Prince Albert, Edgeworth or the latest Union brand. Indeed, someone in authority has stated that if he had his way every man would be compelled to smoke, that he likes to see a man smoke a pipe...
...crash into sensationalism. Mr. Whipple says that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet of Harper's may enclose as many and as vitriolic shafts directed against complacency as the verdant boards of the less adroit Mercury...
...inability to find himself in complicated mazes of the white world; and Mr. Robeson's personality. His organ-like voice croons, booms in husky, mellow tones filled with all the languor and ebullience of his naive race. In the third act he appears stripped to the buff-an Apollo in black marble, a sight for any sculptor. Across the footlights prejudice turns to admiration. Black Boy, with the debased morale of the U. S. Negro, can see no beauty in his own people. Even passion withers when his sweetheart is revealed a yellow girl. But Paul Robeson, personally, shines...
...newspapers of the world were thundering the news of his rescue, telling of his service record, of his famous naval forebears. They told about the John Rodgers of England who commanded the vessel that rescued Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe) from the Island of Juan Fernandez. They told of the buff-and-blue John Rodgers, lieutenant on the frigate, later Commander Rodgers. They pointed out that at no time since the last British gun boomed across Lake Erie has the Navy been without a distinguished member of the Rodgerses in its service. They mentioned that since 1900 five active rear admirals...
...created or interpreted by colorless characters. The author of Ariel (that rare book) has here expended his remarkable power of lucid biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of the three chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with the spirit of a bourgeois curate, rising to histrionic heights on emotional wings supplied by the death of her asthmatic daughter...