Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might interest you to know that insofar as this particular appeal to decency is concerned you are not dealing merely with an insignificant little colored man and his colored followers or "blackamoors" as you choose to refer to them, and as Father Divine and His followers might appear to you, but rather this is addressed to you from and on behalf of those of your fellowmen who are considered as "white," and who believe incidentally that no man is a credit to any so-called race or color until he is first a gentleman...
Effective in the early sequences in which a brutal commandant tortures the prisoners is the use of yellow color for shots and lamps in night scenes. Ably gloomy is Prisoner Howard's heavy-eyed performance. Remarkably feeble is the comedy relief supplied by a British cockney and a Texas cowboy. Good shot: the escaping mob of prisoners in murky hand-to-hand scrabbling with the airdrome troops...
...first All-Union Aviation Festival last week. A small crowd of 10,000 spectators trooped out to Moscow's Octobrisky Airport, impassively watched the nation's largest airplane, the giant ANT-14, waddle across the field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly in a spatter of color the world's record for mass parachute jumping was broken.* Thirty-six graduates of the Soviet parachute school, some of them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others leaped from a bomber. Each 'chute was red. white...
...group of distinguished officials, including James Roosevelt, Jr., son of the President, will and color to the third annual Summer School rowing regatta. The contest will take place this Thursday and Friday afternoon, and the 91 entrants so far are evenly divided between the four women's and five men's events...
...building is going to feel much of the wartime thrill of patriotism. The thousands of telegrams, from manufacturers and chambers of commerce and others have already arrived, giving the message of national unity of purpose. These carried lights and color with their thrills...