Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widow Angeline was resourceful. While she put little store by such things herself, she knew that Parisian women loved to soften their skins with greasy pastes, loved to create an artificial bloom to replace the natural color which had faded. The widow Angeline bent over the kitchen stove, mixing potions, whipping them into creams. Each ingredient she showed to the round-eyed, intelligent boy. Thus Louis Philippe was trained to become, not a king, but a maker of cosmetics...
Tribunal Probes. Counsel for Miss Savidge grilled Inspector Collins as to whether he had alternately threatened and cajoled her, called her "Irene," tried to press cigarets upon her, questioned and examined her as to the length and color of her petticoat, and finally asked: "You're really a good girl and you've never...
...this light, the suggested combine took on a new color. Suppose Magnate Farrell had made agreements with German makers to keep greedy U. S. hands out of European markets, in return for promises to keep foreign steel from offering serious competition in U. S. markets. Suppose the export combine was for the purpose of making these agreements effective. Suppose the Federal Trade Commission, to whom the combine application was made, should view such agreements as potent and possibly dangerous aids toward controlling domestic as well as foreign prices...
...Columbus discovered it, marveled at its extraordinary beauty and fertility, bartered beads and gaudy bracelets for pretty gold-dust friendly "Indians" had found. But the Spaniards' brutality reduced these Indians to a paltry number and, needing laborers, they began importing large numbers of Africans. Before long the color line was so loosely drawn that very few of Santo Domingo's inhabitants could boast unmixed blood. Added to Spanish, Creoles and blacks, were soon the French and English traders, and by the end of the 18th Century French control was so well in the ascendency that Haiti contributed vast...
Prolific author of critical essays on poetry, Poet Untermeyer sticks to conventional rhythms in his own verse, but experiments with new rhymes: "fronds-bronze, millions-brilliance, color-duller, cardboard-hard, bored,"-studied inaccuracies which emphasize a lack of spontaneity. Indeed, this poet is at his best in historical comment, or in one satiric sonnet that is an anthology of Georgian poetry, complete with bucolic landscape where "immemorial lambs keep moonlit trysts with deathless nightingales...