Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women members, all in black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
...Viking. Although the odd, no-colored daylight of the camera suggests, by the contrast of shadows, all colors, producers have always been dissatisfied with this virtue of their medium just as with the swift possibilities of its silence. Past experiments with color have been unsatisfactory principally because colors did not reproduce exactly; in this tinted drama involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even...
...murals, appearing in the Boston Evening Transcript stated. "...And indeed here are found in a marked degree those qualities which make a mural painting great--nobility of subject together with able and decorative handling in expressing it fully. In short a fine and strong conception in terms of color and light and shade, which make in themselves a beautiful decoration of a given surface...
Secretary of Labor James John Davis reminisced of iron-puddling, mule driving. The color of his speech was roseate: "The long work day and the long work week is as dead as a dodo. . . . Prosperity is not the product of the classes; it is the product of the masses . . . labor-saving machines are rapidly becoming leisure-producing machines...
...iridescent landscapes of Vincent van Gogh, madman. When he had no brushes he squirted paint from his color tubes. Insanely he attacked Gauguin with a razor, then lopped off one of his own ears, sent it in an envelope to a bordello. He died by his own hand...