Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt holding many silver knives and supporting a wicked-looking scimitar...
...okapi is about the size of a large stag, but hornless. Its head tapers to a point, its lips are soft and flexible, which indicates that it feeds upon foliage. In its upper jaw it has no teeth. Its tail resembles that of an ass. The coloring of the okapi is remarkable; cheeks and jaws are yellowish-white; forehead and muzzle chestnut red; large, ass-like ears red fringed with black. The neck, shoulders, barrel and back vary from sepia and black to deep red; the belly is blackish; the tail bright red with a black tuft. The hind quarters...
...black shirt, it has been frequently alleged, was adopted by the Fascisti on account of its utilitarian color. Premier Benito discovered, however, that certain kinds of spots show up most plainly, and to the quiescent but intense discomfiture of thousands of Fascisti, he ordered the first general wash of black shirts...
...Marr: "These ultra-Modernists are mentally afflicted. They are sick in their heads, and the more I see of their work, the more I become convinced of the fact. Most of them are incapable of learning the simple mechanics of drawing, so they splash their canvases with every color of the spectrum and call it inspiration." The many, many people who subscribe to the sanctity of tradition-in-Art have rented a studio for von Marr so that he may continue to teach them. The six professors, as one man, declared that "it makes no difference whether an artist...
...this section. The pictures merely serve for a comparison of English Art with itself. Particularly, a comparison of the immediate predecessors of our generation is illuminating, for men like Watts, Landseer and Edward Burne-Jones are here. It is only mildly entertaining to note the increased intensity of color in Canadian painting, more like our own in key, and the distressing effect of occidentalism on Indian...