Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main Bulletin Board of Lowell House there is now hanging a little strip of silk. It is not a large or particularly brilliant spot of color but it represents all that is implicit in the name of Lowell House. It is the Lowell House tie. It will, perhaps, not add much to the sartorial splendor of the carefree house member. It will not spruce up the drabness of last years grey flannels. But it will convey a jaunty mark of distinction. In the drawing rooms of Back Bay hearts will palpitate as the Lowell tie swings into the receiving line...
Attempts to conceal suicides are quite frequent in a medical examiner's experience. In one case when entering the bed-room of a youth said by his sister to have died of heart trouble, Dr. Magrath noted the peculiar color of his ear. Although the room was free from odor, turning down the bed-clothes brought forth the smell of illuminating gas. An examination of the blood showed it to be of the bright magenta color peculiar to victims of gas asphyxia. The ordinary color of blood encountered in autopsies is a grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into...
...Hall. Bolts, cables, and cement will be used to fasten the pole within the framework beginning today. Contrary to current suppositions, it is not a lightning arrestor, although wires which will ground any electrical disturbances will run down through the tower separated from the pole by insulators. The flaring color of the spike is caused by red lead paint which forms an adhesive scale on metal, and prevents seepage of moisture which would gradually oxidize the iron...
Suspense is retained until the end in a manner as logical as possible for so improbable a plot. We like the clever and unobtrusive employment of local color, the same condensation of a day of terrific action, and above all the work of Douglas Fairbanks...
...Water color drawings by Ruskin and book illustrations and drawings by Kate Greenaway, are now on display in the Widener Memorial Room at the College Library...