Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opener. This week the Metropolitan opened its new season with much the same boom of headlines and splash of socialite color as had marked its 51 other first nights. Bystanders crowded the sidewalks. Standees were early, boxholders late...
...vault was bricked up. Doors and corridors had to be rearranged. In order to install a modern air-conditioning system the panelling in several rooms had to be taken apart piecemeal and replaced. Eighteen ten-ton blocks of marble were quarried before Miss Frick found one with just the color she wanted for a fountain in the central court. Mrs. Frick was wont to take her ease in a boudoir on the second floor whose panels had once been painted by Boucher for Mme de Pompadour. This had to be dismantled and set up again in what was once...
...criticism in this country ranks Mr. Disney as the foremost American artist. The furore produced for example, by "The Three Little Pigs", in merchandise, music, and mational thought, is unparalleled in the history of artistic phenomena. Besides Mr. Disney's delightful fantasies modestly called Silly Symphonies, replete with brilliant color, there is Mickey Mouse, man's only rodent friend...
Handkerchiefs, a crew race with Yale, and a hot sun combined 61 years ago in laughing about the change of the University color from magenta to crimson. To keep perspiration off their faces members of the varsity crew were handkerchiefs wound about the head and these happened to be crimson. The innovation struck the student's fancy with the eventual result that the color of the University was officially changed. The Magenta, the semi-monthly publication, became the Crimson...
December 16. Up betimes, and put on my red stuff-suit, with a shoulder belt, according to the new style, and the bands of my vest and tunique laced with fine lace, of the color of my suit; and so, very handsome, by coach to nibble a bit at Will's. Here I did meet Sir Samuel Pepys, who greeted me merrily and did tell me some gossip from court, and all the while started at my new suit and I think with envy. Whereupon I did tell him my tailor and it did please him much. Whereupon I sought...