Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Fred L. Lavanburg, Manhattan color manufacturer, died last November he bequeathed $750,000 to the Lavanburg Foundation to provide comfortable homes for the families of low-paid workers. By low pay he meant a total family income of $25 or less a week. Speedily his executors set to work abuilding an apartment house to accommodate 120 such families. Suites were to contain steam heat, electric lights, private baths, gas ranges, ice boxes-"all modern conveniences." Last week the executors dedicated the building. But no 120 families with $25-a-week incomes occupied the rooms. The executors found barely enough...
...George Fleming Houston; the aged Faust, Patrick Kilkelley; the youthful Faust, Clifford Newdall; Valentin, Raymond Koch. No one of them showed a voice of any great dimensions, but each was vocally adequate and faithful to the tiniest dramatic detail. There were new sets by Robert Edmond Jones, thrilling in color and design, and a new English text by Robert A. Simon, gratefully free from the stilted archaic talk of the old librettos. Greatest tribute to Mr. Rosing was the ensemble, each member of which played like a trained actor as engrossed in being a soldier, or part of a street...
...endured. Such artificial rules . . . . . tend to destroy . . . that joy in learning and that zeal for inquiry which are the making of a university spirit. . . . Then, too, there is that tendency . . . to specialize so severely, as to make the student blind and deaf to the wonderful appeal of intellectual color and form which surrounds him on every side...
...leaflet signed by famed Explorer William Beebe-were part of an artistic haul made by three painters who accompanied him to Haiti on the tenth expedition of the New York Zoological Society. "Never, I believe," wrote Explorer Beebe. "has any one country been so vividly presented in crayon, water color...
...color and music to the game both the B. U. and the Harvard Bands will play during the evening...