Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children in Shadwell, a grimy London slum. The little princesses were seen last week in new spring costumes of delicate powder blue, and Queen Mary appeared with every article of her attire, even stockings, in exactly the same color...
...sank a considerable distance, whereupon "a most lovely apparition with streaming hair glided toward him. She had eyes of the deepest blue. Her skin reminded him of a luscious peach. Most wondrous of all was her body. It tapered off into a slender curve, which sparkled and reflected every color...
...father was one of the Japanese artists who did their best 60 years ago to imitate Leonardo da Vinci. Little Obata was apprenticed at seven to a traditional master, spent two years learning to draw a circle and two straight lines. For seven years he was allowed no color. One result of this discipline was a skill which his Sacramento audience found as exciting as a circus. Another result, possibly, was that Obata took ship for California at 18. A good friend of the late great Botanist Luther Burbank, he still gives as much time to his garden in Berkeley...
...noticeable tendency toward materialistic, slightly "off-color" writing by the female dramatists of the present day is gradually sickening the public and turning them against this type of play, Carroll stated. This form of writing, he asserted, is not true art but photographic realism...
...there was still a shadow of doubt in the minds of the island editors. What kind of a place was Princeton? As "The Recorder" went to press, no decision had been reached. The color of the Princetonians was not specified...