Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must lie immobile in brambles half the years of his life, or crouch in duck boats, shin up tall trees, wiggle all day through burdock. Thus he may discover the true expressions of contentment, fear, anger or mischief never seen in a stuffed bird. He may discover the true color of a bird's bill and feet, which fade quickly after death. He may discover such secrets as that the caracara of the Southwest has a reddish eye normally, but an eye of dull yellow when it throws its head over on its back. Finally, when...
...amateur Ornithologist Philip Marston Brasher (for whom the Brasher warbler was named), Rex early heard his father's criticisms of the famed Audubon bird plates which often carry naturalism, composition and color beyond the point of probability. In 1879, aged 10, Rex Brasher decided to paint all the birds in North America himself. After his father died, he learned taxidermy, went to St. Francis College (Brooklyn) and at 15 to work in the engraving department of Tiffany & Co. No longer prosperous was his family, whose founder, according to the family legend, had come to Manhattan in 1621 as the wealthy...
...subscribers, leafing last week through the twelve handsome volumes, each 13 by 18 in. and 2 in. thick, inevitably measured Brasher against his predecessors. All critics agree that Audubon's beautiful plates take liberties. Many of his birds are wrong in proportion, action, color and anatomy as well as in the conventional classification of Audubon's time (particularly the flycatcher family). A genius, unwilling to allow any plate to be un-notable, Audubon often made his birds unrealistically spectacular. Critics perceive that Brasher has heId faithfully to the probable background and the actual bird, rarely permitting himself a flourish...
Pace, local color and wit are the proper ingredients for comedies like Blessed Event. It has some of all three and a series of minor episodes proper to a picture which treats Broadway as the heart of the world. When a pressagent offering a reporter whiskey says: "It's been analyzed," the reporter (Frank McHugh) says: "Lots of things are analyzed that I wouldn't want to drink." Good shot: Lee Tracy swallowing his profanity for the benefit of Tsar Will Hays when he says, "I wish to God I'd never done...
...dress designs scattered without plan through pages of advertising, the new McCall's looks like three magazines bound as one. The first 30 pages are designated "News & Fiction." Therein are stories, reviews of cinema, music, radio, books, religion. Then the reader comes to a second cover in four colors, showing a detail of a table set for luncheon. This section is named "Homemaking." Fifty pages farther back a third color cover (woman at a dressing table) introduces "Style & Beauty." Advertisements are distributed to correspond. Every advertiser is assured preferred position for his copy...