Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt had no sooner finished fishing in Mexico's Pacific backyard last week than Secretary Hull sent Mexico a note about expropriation-without-compensation. The document was remarkable not only for force and color unusual in the State papers of Cordell Hull,* but because it was really many notes in one- carbon copies to all Latin-American neighbors and a copy to the U. S. electorate...
...have admired it, yes. Ah, but you should have seen it when my husband, King Ferdinand, was laid out there at the far end in Death-it was beautiful!" The ladies of the Court, by express command of the Dowager Queen, mourned her not in black but in a color she had described as violet Cardinal. While her body was laid last week beside that of King Ferdinand in the royal vault, her heart was cut out by her instructions, to be placed in a mauve-lined silver casket, enshrined in the chapel at Marie's beloved country Castle...
...forthright, plainspoken, sharp-eyed teacher who preferred playing the cello to painting, warned his students that he could read their thoughts from the colors they used. His method was to place a model on the beach, so that the brilliant background of sky and water forced students to see the head merely as a spot of color. He then gave students a big, broad-edged putty knife and a square of building board, and urged them to study color rather than drawing. "Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color," he would...
...show by 20 contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...
...representative at the London conference, at which Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy presided, was Albert Gain Black, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. A drawling, scholarly man whose hair is the color of July wheat. Economist Black, 42, took to farming almost before he could wield a pitchfork, taught agricultural economics at Iowa State College for four years, joined the AAA's inner council in 1935. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince them...