Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 15, 1871 Speaker James Gillespie Elaine indulged in an undignified and personal controversy with Representative Butler, also of Maine, on the House floor. Henry Clay (1811-14; 1815-20) spoke so often from the floor that he virtually used his prestige as Speaker to control and color all legislative procedure...
Metropolitan stage shows are always pleasing to the eye. Their costuming is novel and the scenery full of startling color combinations without being stagey. We only wish they would present some act other than 1. A contortionist. 2. Anapache dance. 3. A bunch of acrobats. We have no grievance against these phenomena of vaudeville, but it does seem that there must be others...
...World where he settled down in Chicago's West Side lumber yard and railroad district. One son, Rudolph, soon picked up broken English, discarded newspapers which he sold for 1? profit, and a knack of drawing. In time he | drifted to New York, originated in 1897 a color page of comics called "The Katzenjammer Kids," became one of the world's most beloved cartoonists...
...contracts. Instead, beginning May 1, a young understudy, Bernard Dibble, creator of "Danny" in the Graphic, would carry on. Rudolph Dirks's "Captain & the Kid's" which began as "The Katzenjammer Kids" (katzenjammer, literally "cat's cry," means "hangover" in contemporary German slang) is the oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history. The World had the first of all U. S. colored comic strips, "The Yellow Kid"-a gamin whose street argot later gave rise to the term "yellow journalism"-produced by the late Richard Felt on ("Buster Brown") Outcault Hearst lured Outcault...
...There is color everywhere, especially in the lives of American women. The only drab things in the American woman's life are her husband and her newspaper...