Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world changed color and shape for the stupefied Masons. To their house in the slums of South Philadelphia rushed well-wishers, curiosity-seekers, oil-well and gold-mine promoters. Police had to rope off their street. A man in Liberia wanted them to finance a bus line from Monrovia to the jungle. "All I ever wanted was my own home," Pearl shakily said...
...Wizard of Oz books, Ben Jr., 6, new clothes. When they wanted fried chicken, they had fried chicken. But no diamond rings, no champagne, no bottle-busting, neck-breaking carnival for the Masons. Pearl had a better idea. "I always wanted to help out people of my color," said...
...Looking as tough as saddle leather and about the same color from 20 years in the Moroccan sun and winds, the adjutant smiled, barked an order in Arabic and in less than a minute we were swinging off through the woods single file. Six riflemen were ahead and six behind...
Thanks to the radio, an ordinary man can listen to great music in slippered ease. But to see great art he must risk fallen arches tramping through museums. To bring good painting to the family circle, many a low-priced art book, crammed with color reproductions, has lately been published in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 23). Another venture in the way of such home museums was put out last week by William H. Wise...
Sure to hit popular taste amidships was World-Famous Paintings, based on questionnaires to 31,000 Wise customers asking for their favorite paintings. For $2.95 the reader got the 100 most popular choices in color, a running-fire commentary by Artist Rockwell Kent. Unprecedentedly huge was the first edition of 300,000 copies. With 220,000 of them sold already, Wise & Co. planned another printing of 250,000 in January...