Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors navy blue leads black for street wear; "string color," a tannish off-white, is most popular for sports. ¶ Elaborate gloves, jeweled, of wool, taffeta, velvet, net, are shown in most collections...
...Soong, who knows the value of excitement, harangued a Jehol mass meeting of soldiers & civilians thus: "Because a map has been published at Tokyo showing the so-called Manchukuo with Jehol included, Japan claims title to this province. You must now color this map with your heart's blood to show the world that Jehol is Chinese territory...
...been said that Maurice Sterne has reached the highest point to which intelligence and technique, without genius, can bring a painter. His color is excellent, his drawing impeccable, he studiously avoids the academic. But Maurice Sterne is never quite satisfied with his work. He constantly pesters his dealers to let him dab at his old canvases again. In the introduction to last week's catalog he wrote...
...Warner). Warner Brothers started the vogue for gangster pictures and, in the opinion of Vice President Jack Warner, almost every other trend in the cinema since 1927, except the trend toward bankruptcy. This picture, a new experiment in color, is better than the ones which most major companies tried a year or two ago. At once lurid and realistic, colored cinematography is appropriate to mystery stories, particularly to this one which starts with a conflagration in a waxworks gallery...
...athletic, enthusiastic, popular. He is in London as much as he is in the U. S. Though he speaks no foreign languages, he staffs his offices as far as possible with native labor, respects native customs. He knows that a maroon car cannot be sold in Japan because that color is reserved for royalty, that yellow means mourning to the Chinese, that green is bad luck to the Indian. He has a home in Oyster Bay, N. Y. from which he commutes on his sporadic visits in a speed boat. He likes to drive an automobile as fast...