Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Print? Anything that won't put me in jail or cost me my job. . . Yes, I agree with what you're thinking. It makes no difference what I say. You'll write your own 'copy.' The reporter's interview of a reporter, with some conventional color...
...route as to form a continuous alley of rooters for the team. The throwing of flowers before the team's wagon (a custom in use at California institutions) might well be adopted. A delegation of Radcliffe girls as song and cheer leaders would lend a further touch of color to the scene. "Beat Yale" banners, pennants, and buttons should be everywhere...
...Miss Williams gets little maudlin at times, but at others she is refreshing. And so is Fred Keating. The most polished bits of all are engineered about Michelette and Claude Burani and George Spelvin as concierge, gendarme, and French gentleman, respectively, who are the principal artists in two local color episodes which almost called for encores last night...
...World-Telegram's campaign to elect LaGuardia started in earnest the day he got the nomination. Every possible bit of political color and prejudice was thrown into the news reports. Everything except the municipal election promptly subsided on the editorial page. The thundering oratory of Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's daily drawings had only one subject during the last four weeks of the campaign...
...daily lesson. Of course, the grammar taught is standard and the books read are classics. The argument is that if one is to learn a language, he might as well know it in its perfect form. However, this method of teaching deprives the student of much of the color and life of a language. The classical prose and poetry is, in spite of its sometimes artificial form, usually worth reading for its beauty. But, by confinement to such works, the student may get an unnatural view of the language as a whole...