Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pageantry of the reunions comes today when the classes appear in their distinctive uniforms in the Stadium The Class of 1924, clad in Tyrolean costumes, is expected to furnish color for the parade...
...invaluable assistance. Lastly, the supposition has grown up that each year Harvard must have a pageant of notables decoratively arrayed on the platform for this important occasion. The choice of Alfred E. Smith last year not only gave Harvard a chance to show its originality, but lent a real color to the festivities. The fact that the accomplishments which merited a degree occurred several years before when he was Governor of New York prior to his retirement, made no difference. It really is too bad that Roosevelt has received a degree for Roosevelt and Hoover on the same platform would...
...State's income (TIME. July 3). The State's Press swept off its hat and talked of Dodds for Governor. "Nothing," says Harold Willis Dodds with this record behind him and Princeton's presidency in hand, "has ever happened to me." Almost the only color in his life is the mercurochrome he put on the fingers of Nicaraguan voters to prevent them from repeating at the polls. He was born on a small farm three miles west of Utica in western Pennsylvania, the summer home of his Presbyterian minister father.- In nearby Grove City (pop. 6.156), where...
...remarkable fact, but in this instance George has been in the tight little isle with a very definite purpose in mind. To lay the finger on the spot, Hollywood has decided that David Copperfield is a good subject for macoration, and Mr. Cuker has been in England getting local color with the aid of a Baedeker's Guide...
...display in the Coney Island yards of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. last week was the first high-speed aluminum train to be tried on New York City's vast subway system. At leather seats, indirect lighting, pastel color schemes, chimes for sliding doors, subway sardines gaped in astonishment. But a modern subway train was not the only BMT exhibit of the week. Chairman Gerhard Melvin Dahl was busy giving the first successful demonstration of how to circumvent the Securities Act of 1933. BMT's toothy, argumentative chairman was not bothered by any looming bond maturities. That problem...