Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schwartz last week showed 14 symphonic forms, sultry, rich splotches of color into which had been thrown trees and unidentifiable objects. Now 39, Schwartz came to the U. S. at 17 from Smorgon, Russia, was successively steelworker, housepainter, restaurant singer before he got friends in Omaha to stake him to a year at the Chicago Art Institute. Since then the voluble little intellectual has won three Institute prizes. Unmarried, he lives in a two-room, cluttered studio, sometimes sings in vaudeville, has a government commission for a mural in the Fairfield, Ill. post office...
Frederick William Lawrence wearied of painting with a brush seven years ago. He had won some water color prizes and done some portraits when he was a Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures...
...they think of these rumors? With one accord-and not a little blasphemy-they branded them as pure and unadulterated bunk. Well, I tried a few questions of the same sort on Capitol Hill among the sober-headed legislators. With just as much unanimity and only a little less color, they said the same thing: 'Pure and unadulterated bunk.' Then I sprang it on a few men-about-Washington -who make it a point to be in on the know -regardless of who is President. Their vote was the same: Pure and unadulterated bunk...
...City of Ichang (pop. 60,000) disappeared with a woosh, was "wiped out." But all this was merely the doing of the Yangtze ("Willow") River, sometimes called "The River of Golden Sand" by poets because of its yellow silt. Farther north the Hwangho or Yellow River, equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties into the Gulf of Chihli some...
...staff, he insists on having his research director in an adjoining office. Not a penny has been scrimped on research during Depression, for the Colonel's passion is mechanical improvement of his products-a stronger selling point for industrial goods than for consumer goods, in which style, color, packaging are often all-important. Fairbanks, Morse always tries to sell the pump that goes with the windmill for the generator that goes with the Diesel engine, so that it will have undivided responsibility for the engineering of the complete installation...