Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belongs to a school most of whom have gone to their home beyond the Jordan. These poor souls could hide much misery beneath an aching heart. Suffering under a double handicap, color and lack of education, they were too tired to give much thought to advancement and constitutional rights. May they rest in peace...
...unnecessary to assure the addicts of Belloc biographies that this one charges along with the same speed and color as the rest, with the same impatient snorts at contrary opinions. It is not up to the standards of "Wolsey" and "Richelieu" and "Robespierre" because it is a much shorter work, and forms part of a popular biographical series of somewhat less than scholarly pretensions. But the Belloc flavor is only limited, not essentially impaired...
Aside from a lavish use of color the rest of the pictures from prisons had little in common. Many were copied from postcards, magazine covers, old masters. The best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks...
...Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, grandson of Painter John La Farge, Christopher ("Kipper") Grant La Farge, 37, is as versatile as the rest of his family. Though his vocation is architecture (he works in his father's office) he has numerous arty hobbies, such as painting in water color, designing sets for the Comedy Club, costumes for eunuchs. His real passion is the stage. Nearsighted, gangling, emaciated, married, he looks like a composite of an American Indian, Aldous Huxley, King...
...York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with me for I know she will choose whatever shade will best enhance her perfect features...