Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stag of azure glass dappled with the same gold, stepped with a fairy pride across the expanse of Chinese lacquer which separated him from his mate, and the two, meeting, caressed each other with delicate gestures of affection. A hummingbird, with feathers blown in pearl color and crimson, flew from his perch, alighting on the leafy chandelier; the spray that received him bent and swayed and from its largest rose a petal drifted to the floor...
Bakelite, the sensation of the chemists' convention last year (TIME, Sept. 22), was honored. (In its booth on the floor below the Court, this substance, a compound of phenol and formaldehyde, was shown, possessing strength, resisting heat, chemicals and electricity, possessing permanent color and finish. It was shown molded in gorgeous beads, rings, pendants, watch charms, necktie gauds; into smoking pipes, cigar holders like amber, glowing cane knobs, translucent manicure sets; into durable motor fittings, telephone instruments, tool handles...
...particular trends are anticipated in this year's Christmas goods. First, the blazing colors popularized in London for male attire promise to be outdone in America. Many males will probably be astonished at the color of shirts, cravats, socks, dressing-gowns and even suitings presented to him. Second, a huge tide of foreign goods is now being imported. Better and more German toys will be seen. Fine quality of European glass, stamped leather and silk novelties from England, France, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia are already arriving...
...King wrote that at the dinner of the class of 1898 last June, the colors most in evidence were those of the celebrating class, blue and white. This was especially annoying to him because that afternoon the blue of Yale had waved triumphant on the baseball diamond. Nowhere, Mr. King wrote, was there a sign of crimson, Harvard's color...
...city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather a spirit within him did, who signed the canvases "Leonardo da Vinci"-exotic decorative designs, Oriental arabesques of rich color and a draughtsmanship at once high- ly technical and naive. An impartial critic described the work as looking "like the work of the great master executed during an attack of de-lirium...