Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom, not of porcelain which may crack or "craze," is of rough- surfaced iron, | in. thick, coated with enamel. A color may be baked on: T'ang red, clair de lune blue, Ming green, rose du Barry, orchid de Vincennes...
...course, I shall do as the respectful Japanese hope and trust-place TIME (June 6) with the front cover upward. But what shall I do next week? May I not put my most recent TIME on top of the previous issue, even if its front cover reproduces a color picture of the "Son of Heaven"? Wouldn't it be similar to putting the Bible on the U. S. flag...
...fears? Last week at Cornell University Dr. Jacobus Christian Faure announced that the same influence that turns a group of peaceful citizens into a crowd of bloodthirsty madmen also affects the grasshopper-mob psychology. In Pretoria, South Africa, Dr. Faure collected a lot of solitary grasshoppers. He picked all colors, brown, green, grey, soil-tinted and put them together in a cage. Soon they began to change shape and color. They became more active. Their body heat rose. Their appetites increased. In successive molts they continued to change color until all were black-&-yellow-the age-old color of plague...
...reasoning faculties and buy a certain mattress because a certain society leader allowed one to be photographed in her house; to buy a certain cigarette because a movie actress finds its advertisements a convenient vehicle for her publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles in color design the wings of the peacock or the inner gleam of the emerald; or to seek the "taste" of a certain cigarette because "in the ring it's punch"; we are asked to believe that social success and domestic happiness depend primarily on ability to play the gazook or freedom...
...convention's 75 Negro members. Bishops Clair and Jones attended dinners and meetings of the bishops, held in private rooms at the Dennis. There was newspaper talk of embarrassments, complaints, discrimination. The convention was asked to resolve that never again should it meet in a place where the color-line is drawn. Despite protests that this would embarrass the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and perhaps delay reunion between Northern and Southern branches, the resolution was passed by a close vote...