Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foods and Beverages Building visitors can 1) inspect a 1,000 Ib. Exposition Cake; 2) see National Biscuit Co.'s Mickey Mouse in color-the only commercial film Walt Disney has made; 3) watch Hills Bros.' color film on the making of coffee and, whenever a cup of it is flashed on the screen, sniff aromatic coffee fumes blown at them from ventilating machines...
...Best foreign exhibit-obviously designed to win U. S. friends-is the Japanese pavilion. An old Nipponese castle around a small lake, the pavilion demonstrates the manufacture of silk, parasols, dolls; offers a culinary oddity, tea ice-cream, nauseous grey-green in color, but pleasantly piquant in taste...
...forced Mr. Hughes to stay away from the Court from March 6 to April 17, but when he returned everyone commented on what an amazing comeback he had made. His step was firm and vigorous, his color high, eye bright, voice strong. Then he began to fail. His last appearance was on the Wednesday preceding the term's end, and observers expressed doubt then that he would be able to finish...
...Acts. Yet Maurice Grosser's painting belongs to a school which is just what the doctor ordered for critics who carry on indiscriminately about "modernism" in art (see p. 36). Grosser owes nothing to conventional impulses yet is a firmly "representational," sensitive draftsman. His particular passion, however, is color. Exasperated, like other young perfectionists, at the chemical impermanence of certain modern ready-made paint, Grosser began some years ago to grind and mix his own colors, a process in which he has taken infinite pains. Result is a clean brilliance of color made luminous by transparent strokes...
...Krohler Manufacturing Co., Iowa Painter Grant Wood designed an overstuffed, tasseled, neo-Victorian chaise longue (see cut). Blurbed Painter Wood: "This chair was conceived in comfort and dedicated to the principle of utter relaxation. I hope you like it." With each chair goes a color reproduction of his Woman With Plants...