Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, he paid a visit to the U. S., delivered some lectures on "Form and Color in Art," "The Art of Costume," in which he denounced timorous pastel shades in dress, advocated the bravery of barbaric Russian colors. Everywhere society feted him. One dowager invited him to her parlor, which she had adorned for the occassion in crimson and gold. She herself was accoutred in emerald and azure; her children in clothes copied from Russian ballets. "How do you like this?" she asked. "Dear madame," he replied, "do you see me calling on you in golden trousers, red waistcoat...
...This Is Marriage is one of the most curious hybrids that the pictures have produced. Right in the middle of a prosaic history of a young wife who spent too much money, is introduced an elaborate Biblical adventure in luxurious color film. David and Bath-Sheba, battles and beards, dancing girls and the annoyance of the Lord thereat are profusely painted in. They illustrate the villain's attempt to justify to the wife her proposed seduction by himself. Very properly the bewildered girl burst into tears and went downstairs to her husband. The picture proves that travel talks...
...whom the soul of a poet grew. His poems won him the love of a deformed little country mouse, Hebe, who painted pathetic pictures, wrote him beautiful letters and cowered from his sight for shame of her crumpled body. He cowered from her sight for shame of his color, and all the more so when she impulsively sent him a picture of her lovely sister, in place of her own likeness. When Hebe discovered David's secret, she loved him notwithstanding. When he discovered hers, his bitterness was vile. He recovered, but without much grace, and this second climax...
...passes current, quite contrary to intent, in Egypt, in India, in Morocco, and in the Philippines. Even China demands that a people's right to wage civil war in its own way--in fair weather, with Sundays and holidays off--shall not be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...
...Western Conference" is composed of teams from the universities or colleges of several Western States, chief among the contenders being the University of California (the "Bears"), champions since the formation of the Conference in football, Stanford University (the "Cards" or the "Cardinals" from the University color), University of Washington (the '"Huskies") and University of Southern California (the "Trojans") (with whom, as your last item correctly says, relations in sports are for the future broken, so far as "California" and "Stanford" are concerned...