Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was in the White House, Calvin Coolidge was not above cribbing local color verbatim from the office encyclopedia for his minor speeches. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt lifted his Thanksgiving Day proclamation for 1930 from the Protestant Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Last week careful readers of political addresses discovered what looked like another case of plagiarism...
...invasion of the field. At present the stiffest competition comes from the Duplex Printing Press Co., Walter Scott & Co., the Goss Printing Press Co. and the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp. headed by Henry Alexander Wise Wood, who was financed by James Gordon Bennett and others. High-speed color printing for newspapers is Mr. Wood's chief interest and in it he will recognize only one rival, the Claybourn Press (used by the Pittsburgh Press). Another big developer of color presses has been C. B. Cottrell & Sons. Its founder, Calvert Byron Cottrell, was an inventor of many devices used...
...that reaches the human eye, the rich oils of Beneker convey all the realism of being, and all the strength and solidity of steel. Perhaps it is the medium in which the work is done that accounts for the difference; the paintings depict with more life-like fidelity and color the shapes of qualities of things, the stylus tends to tinge the reproduction with the impression that the mind receives, and the imagination which is evoked by the vision...
Author Van Vechten, when he was a child, used to collect birds' eggs, postage stamps, cigaret pictures, tobacco tags. Now he collects gaudy things of the mind, mostly reminiscences. Pieced together they make a kind of patchwork quilt, recalling. null strips of bright or sombre color, a bygone age. Neither very sacred nor very profane, they make good reading for belles-lettres' connoisseurs...
...story of Owen Keegan, middle-aged in years but youthful in spirit, who marries Nance, a young girl. There have been similar situations in the drama before, where the pretences of son and daughter in the household has complicated affairs. But Murray, writing of familiar scenes, has given color and life to a story well worn by time. And the actors made the most of their parts...