Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ALTHOUGH the local color school of American literature went out of style many years ago after a comparatively short, but exceedingly prolific career, occasional books written on particular sections of the United States by author who still remain ardent followers of the school occasionally do appear. According it Granville Hicks such writers were not a true part of America's Great Tradition, but nevertheless it cannot be denied that they contribute an extremely essential section to the composition of American Literature...
...whole Hepburn, and nothing but the Hepburn. Lula Vollmer, who has written several plays of the backwoods, sees her story completely appropriated by the clever actress who, we hear, is aiming at a Hollywood greatness that will rival Garbo's. The character players who make up the local color are taken from Miss Vollmer's radio sketch of the Tennessee mountains, "Moonshine and Honeysuckle," and are used only as folls for Miss Hepburn. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young, young engineers who invade the backwoods to build a dam, offer complications which are not very important, except as they create dramatic...
...plain people knelt 1,000 prelates including 14 archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church, 72 bishops, 14 abbots and Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. On the altar steps knelt George William Cardinal Mundelein. All the officiating churchmen were vested in red, the color of the day which was St. Mark's. Flat on his stomach before the altar steps, his face in his arms, his arms on a pillow, lay a figure clad all in white...
Expressed in more conventional terms, kitchen-parlor history is the story of some local historical event, put into book form by some local "historian", and abounding in local-color legends. It is peculiarly indigenous to New England, and "The Great Powwow", by Clara Endicott Sears, is an excellent example...
...theatre. Each spring freshman and sophomore boys take three days off for their class fight. This year freshman and sophomore girls put on a tussle. Maine goes in hard for athletics, put up a $450,000 gymnasium last year and calls its football team the "Black Bears." The University color is baby blue. Three years as dean at LaFayette have been enough to make Arthur Hauck the campus' best-liked man. He is 41, solidly built, vigorous, and a college president once described him as "genial, serene, unselfish, kind, modest, patient, sympathetic and lovable." Son of a Methodist minister...