Word: buff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week the directors and principal stockholders of Spiegel, May, Stern Co. Inc., mail-order house, sat down in a buff-paneled room a mile west of Comiskey Ball Park to approve three timely measures: 1) a five-for-one split in the company's common stock, creating 1,265,000 shares out of 253,000 now outstanding; 2) an extra dividend of $2 a share on the present common; 3) a change of their corporate name to Spiegel, Inc. Each in its own way, these three acts celebrated a remarkable feat of applied business science...
...Ababa it was nearly midnight. But along the length of Italy's boot it was 9:30 p. m. Pulsing nerve centre of all this excitement was the huge square of the Piazza Venezia in Rome. Thousands and thousands of eyes in the square were riveted on the buff-colored palace of Benito Mussolini. All along the roof torches flickered in the night air. On the second floor the huge windows were flung wide. The crowd in the square could look directly into the vast frescoed office of Il Duce, lighted up like a stage setting. Round the edge...
...three great canvases Canaletto showed Venice of the fine buildings, clear, speckled sunlight, gondolas, nobles in skirted coats, poor fishermen, dogs, but no filth. Pietro Longhi charmingly showed the noble nonentities at home, drinking coffee, playing cards and Blind-Man's-Buff, attending a noblewoman who has faked a swoon. Francesco Guardi picks out with an astonishingly sparkling and impressionistic use of light the lagoons of Venice. Of Tiepolo, greatest of them all, last week's show included but two examples, the better a slick, overdramatic Crucifixion...
...wanted, the name of his sponsor. In recommending Democrats to the various bureau and department heads, Mr. Hurja used different-colored stationery which amplified the phrases of his letters. If the applicant carried a white letter, he was to be given a job if one were available. A buff letter meant that Emil Hurja was recommending him for a position. A blue letter opened every door, practically guaranteed the applicant...
...have counted them many times - and on the way he did tell me many things which I was glad to learn: My Tower be exactly 200 feet high, 35 feet square. On a clear day it is possible to see even unto Wellesley (but this I knew); there bemuch buff sandstone in the Tower which comes from Nova Scotia; there be a reproduction of our John Harvard statue here all made of paper; but most important I did hear much of the men whom this Tower commemorates. This Hall does shine with famous names...