Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most sizable U. S. cities, the policemen at traffic stops or walking their beats in residential districts make a practice of accosting peaceful citizens several times a year and shoving forward a printed ticket in a purposeful way. The ticket often resembles, in color and size, the card that one gets for speeding, parking without lights or committing a nuisance. The citizen's relief is great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits...
...rest walked in white pants and blue coats. The U. S. delegation, largest of all, received one of the smallest cheers. A crowd of 40,000 packed the stadium; 75,000 would have paid to get inside had there been room. It was not a smart crowd. The color and boisterousness, the mixture of bigwigs and hoodlums who attend prize fights and horse races were lacking. There was none of the suave enjoyment of a polo or lawn tennis crowd. The people at the IXth Olympiad resembled those who attend high school basketball games, minor league baseball games, county fairs...
Kodakman George Eastman had some guests-Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Michael I. Pupin, General John J. Pershing, Owen D. Young and many another bigwig-at his home in Rochester, N. Y., last week. He showed them some motion pictures in color. He told them how simple the process was. Years of complicated experiments have gone into developing the Kodacolor film, minutes of mechanical adjustment are enough to operate it. Color photography is still imperfect; not all the primary colors can be made to go into the eye of a camera and come out lifelike but such...
...Sure things" and "hot tips," while still plentiful, carry light weight with sophisticated investors. But "financial counsel" has the color of wisdom and respectability. An idol crashed, therefore, when members and guests of Manhattan's Delta Upsilon Club listened, last week, to an address by John Moody, publisher of Moody's Manual, President of Moody's Investors' Service, financial analyst, author of The Art of Investing and How to Invest Money Wisely. Said Analyst Moody, humbly...
...yellowish-white product of whale oil known as spermaceti is at the base of most creams, most lipsticks. Vegetable dyes provide the color. The beet is a common source of red coloring, as is the European plant alkanet, and cochineal, crushed from the dried bodies of the female Coccus Cacti, a Mexican and Central American beetle with a fondness for cactus. Plants and insects yield carminic acid. Aniline will make lipstick indelible; benzoin makes it kissproof...