Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champagne it is crowding all the other wines out of our smart restaurants. The women are responsible; they always want Champagne! Every year they want it sweeter, more heavily liquored. And after a meal what is their favorite liqueur? Creme de menthe! I suppose because they like the green color and sickly sweetness." Asked what wines he would serve at a dinner of connoisseurs, Mr. Reeves-Smith quickly replied, "If some men were coming in to dine with me, we would have Sherry with the soup, Moselle with the fish, and then we should really begin-we should start drinking...
Perhaps the most sweeping of the proposed improvements is that whereby Rhodes Scholars may select institutions other than Oxford as their places of study. Apparently the committee has recognized the growing feeling that the relatively large number of Rhodes men at Oxford has begun to lend a definite color to the place. The "American Quarter" atmosphere no doubt has a tendency to antagonize the true born Englishman and certainly there have been many Americans who have deliberately gone elsewhere in their search for an environment more genuinely native than that afforded by an institution than that afforded by an institution...
...head of the Government has sometimes been suspected of wishing to control the color and "angle" of reports on his activities despatched by the newsgatherers assigned to "cover" him. For example, he had a personal, unofficial censor (George Barr Baker) to oversee what was written about him during his South American tour...
With many a South American client to please, the United Press would soon find itself embarrassed if the Government should in any way attempt to oversee the color or angle of any U. S. news involving Government or Business or interactions...
...Radcliffe students are rather an asset, lending a bit of color and life to what would otherwise be a dull atmosphere...