Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit of revolt rife in American colleges? Mr. Evans Clark thinks so, and in an article in the New York Times Magazine, partly quoted in these columns, he sums up his observations and hazards a guess as to the causes. He has caught the color of a large section of undergraduate discontent when he uses the words, "Menckenism," "negation," "cynicism." But he concludes that it all proceeds from a type of student he designates as "the carefree, mentally and morally loosejointed 'flapper.'" Had he looked deeper Mr. Clark might have discovered that this is neither a very penetrating nor very...
...personal mention. "George W. (Mike) Murphy was the center of a lively little party in the Gales Ferry dining room last evening. The occasion was his coming of age (21) but as Ruth Van Phul would say, 'nobody would ever guess it. The dinner was a riot of color and the odor of condensed milk could be distinctly observed...
...long as the Tricolor keeps its color, it will protect from violence and exaction peoples it has promised to protect...
...Several hundred children, from 6 to 16, are recommended, each month, by their teachers. They are admitted to his class on trial; none but those whose abilities are exceptional are invited to continue. Those so invited are given, not instruction, but opportunity. They have their choice of media -water color, oil, crayon, charcoal, clay or soap (for sculpture). Last week, an exhibition of their work was held at the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan...
...important train was allowed to start without their representative. An incidental result of the conflict was the secession of England from the Union; she declared neutrality between the factions and solved her traffic problems by constructing miniature railways which could be managed by persons of average ability and color...