Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miami Daily News. Last week the News opened a new $1,500,000 home overlooking Biscayne Bay, a building marked by a great tower?270 ft. high, patterned after the Giralda Tower at Seville. In celebration of the event it published a 504-page Sunday edition, including 15 color sections of 24 pages each. There were about 1,000 illustrations and enough "news" matter to fill 35 books of ordinary size. It also carried advertising of 1,500 business concerns for an aggregate of 813,036 agate lines...
...there seemed to be some color in that familiar word as pronounced last week by William Dubilier, President of the Dubilier Condenser & Radio Corporation of New York. He contended that the perfection of short-wave radio devices, by definition consumptive of less power and hence of less capital, would soon render "the million-dollar high-power radio-broadcasting stations obsolete." Sailing for Europe, Manufacturer Dubilier took with him low-power radio equipment which he estimated as requiring 1/4,000 the power of such long-wave stations as KDKA (Pittsburgh), WJZ (New York), KPO (San Francisco), CFCA (Toronto...
Kivalina of the Ice Lands was filmed by one Earl Rossman in a two-year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...
...were terrible in a recent number; one story told of a "riot of gorgeous color." Please look to the Coast, San Francisco, once in a while...
...poet also of the other world, he gibbers Spider, Spider, of madness, "hairy-lipped, a crab from Hades." Arabia Felix and The Tower of Genghis Khan are old opiates. He is a man for hot color-read Whim Alley; and sweet peace-see Old Meadows. If there are full-stature poets in the U. S., and it is demonstrable that there are, Hervey Allen, young Charleston, S. C, schoolteacher, is well to the fore in their company...