Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color of these eyes has never been determined by any interviewer, including the present one. And they are the most vivid clue to her personality. The quick change ability, the determination, the strength of purpose, combined with the genuine spirit of kindliness in the woman herself, is reflected in her eyes...
...crowd, usually greedy for "color," that curious amalgam of arrogance and nonchalance, this time preferred Oldster Hoppe's quiet manner. At first he justified its hopes, led Cochran by seven points. Gradually Irishman Cochran regained his skill, his orthodox playing succeeding where his opponent's daring wizardry just failed. Superstitious spectators thought Hoppe a sure winner when he reached ''king row" (40th point) ahead of Cochran, groaned when a minute later he miscued. Cochran, now bubbling with confidence, soon completed the match with an unfinished run of seven, prevented Hoppe from fulfilling a ten-year dream...
...works as a whole, Gosz has little interest in merely being realistic, but attempts by little details here and there to bring out forcibly a definite impression and mood from his sketch. He continually makes use of great splashed of bright color especially blue, red, and orange, and these brilliant hues serve well to show the ferocity, horror, or garishness of his picture...
...French postcards, sensuous Francois Boucher (1703-70). Serious painters were most excited by the opportunity to see six first-rate canvases by Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), an artist who antedated the Impressionists by almost a century in their passion for the effects of light and air on color. Other important numbers...
...American temperament included adaptiveness, a willingness more prompt than among other peoples to dismiss the old and try the new. . . ." The footnote: "Mr. Herbert Hoover thinks this point should be emphasized. . . ." "The Twenties." Like its five best selling predecessors, "The Twenties" is lively, readable, honest, superficial, rich in color, anecdote and detail. Occasionally bumbling in literary style, it lacks coherence, is reflective but not philosophic. No great creative thinker, no intellectual delver into the remote why & wherefore of things, Author Sullivan has laid for future historians of the period an indispensable groundwork of fact and atmosphere. His story...