Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present spurious coins are of such perfect impressions that identification by the design is impossible for the layman. Due to lead content, however, their color tends to be darker than that of the true tokens and they can be cut more easily with a pen-knife. Anyone attempting to pass a counterfeit coin is liable to immediate arrest...
...even so he was eminently the man to gauge its psychological value. More important was the Locarno Treaty, which made an epoch in Franco-German diplomacy, and in which the influence of Streseman was vital. The League of Nations, though not of his creating, has taken deeply the color of his personality, and will in all likelihood continue to move, for both good and evil; along the lines which he marked...
...Reginald Marsh is not a lady's painter. Like Hogarth, he takes crowds for his subject, vulgar, sweating, bestial crowds. He likes to see burlesque shows, dance marathons, bread lines, bathing beaches. He draws them with a line that approaches the British master in brilliance but with a color that is still as crude as his subjects. All his sympathies are reserved for locomotives. Wrote the New York Evening Post...
...while the Press took notes. Soon the country knew some things it has been waiting weeks to learn. The new Fords will be entirely different from old models, will be long, low and wide. They will be streamlined, with slanting windshields, V-shaped radiators with rounded crowns the same color as the bodies. They will have freewheeling, larger wheels, heavier tires, bigger hubcaps. The ignition key will be on the steering post, gasoline tank in the rear...
...Mariene Dietrich is an emotional and aesthetic experience. To see her in the fabulous modernism of the new Paramount Theatre adds further color to that experience. Only a picture of the forcefulness of Shanghai Express could tear one away from the exotic pastime of watching full-blown colonial maidens, done in the style of Louis XVI, cavorting in modernistic panels under the influence of subdued lighting effects. Paramount has again attempted to be all things to all men and has again succeeded in its own fashion...