Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson, 21, well-dressed daughter of Paul Caldwell Wilson and Mrs. Wilson (better known as Madam Secretary Frances Perkins); to David Meredith Hare, 21, Manhattan color photographer; in Manhattan. The groom's best man was Medill McCormick, son of Illinois' onetime Representative, Republican Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and grandson of Mark Hanna. Among the bride's guests at the church were New York's Democratic Representative Caroline O'Day and Mrs. James Aloysius Farley...
...years won the admiration of Augustus John, Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, and which has caused them to be valued by their owners at prices up to $10,000 is a quality found everywhere in English poetry but exceptional in English painting : magic of imagery. Artist Wood sharpened his delicate color sense on Picasso but his line and composition were personal, quaint, candidly visionary. He produced nearly 500 oil paintings in ten years, turned out four a week during his last summer vacation in Brittany. London's definitive exhibition took three years to arrange with the help of Artist Wood...
Roulette players are poor mathematicians. This fact was sharply illustrated in 1913 when a phenomenal record run of one color was reeled off at a table in the Casino at Monte Carlo. The little ball toppled into a black slot no less than 26 times in succession. By the time the 15th black number came up, the table was surrounded by a crowd of gamblers, many of whom placed heavy stakes on the red, figuring that the chances against the black turning up one more time were billions to one. However, since what has occurred before can have no conceivable...
...lately become a fascinating affair. Muddlers who hold either view as occasion in Manhattan demands found occasion last week to hold the second. On the walls of the big mezzanine galleries of Rockefeller Center's International Building were posted more than 1,000 crayon, tempera and water color drawings by children in 530 U. S. and Canadian schools, an exhibition sponsored by the public-school art directors of 30 cities...
...custom in progressive schools. It is done with earth pigments, invented by Miss Shaw, which come like jelly in little jars and can be licked or even eaten with impunity. A big sheet of glazed paper is dipped in water, spread smooth on a table, and gobs of color are dropped on it. The child then swirls the mixture over the paper with both hands, fingers, even forearms, continually creating new designs. Having no crayon or brush to cramp his fingers the child relaxes. Out of his tactile reverie emerge elaborate, rhythmic designs and fantastic forms, which artists admire...