Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve swart women wrapped in garish blankets squatted around a picnic ground on the bank of the Arkansas River near Kaw, Okla. Five old men the color of tanbark squatted in the middle of the clearing, balancing a broad tom-tom on their crossed feet...
...gangster funerals, but during the Loesch prosecutions, probably not even U. S. Senator Deneen of Illinois would care to be seen near the bier of a "racketeer."* Behind the Murphy bier, instead of the United Press's "mile long cortege," were just 20 automobiles, no crowd, no color...
PORGY?Negro tragedy made lively by the acting of a cast whose color will not run, under the superb direction of Rouben Mamoulian (TIME...
...athletic and social calendar. Today all eyes are upon the 1884 men who, with sombre intellectual mien, accept the University's tribute to their various degrees of scholastic endeavor. Tomorrow the stage and scenery undergo a metamorphosis, and all eyes shift to the Thames, teeming with color, and focus upon the eight men on whom depend coveted victory or bitter defeat. With one tremendous overnight sweep the pendulum swings from the sobriety of the Commencement exercises to the frivolous whirl of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, and with it there is the normal transition in the thought and feelings of every...
...picture was simple and obviously the work of a competent craftsman with a color sense for the delicate rather than the flamboyant. More than this it was difficult to praise; the picture was comely rather than beautiful...