Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monster five and thirty reds from beak to tail, of a cerulean blue color, whose pinions when spread were as a flower garden for beauty, being all shades of emerald and assure, people and gold, and whose progress by land or air was always accompanied by the scent of lavender." Such was "The Lavender Dragon" as described by the frightened villagers of Eden Philpott's story to SFr Jasper and his squire as they set forth to slay the creature who had been carrying men, women, and children off to his lair...
...Significance. Ostensibly the study of the decay through over-prosperity of a North German merchant family, actually an able and complete study of this, Buddenbrooks is at least two other things: A vividly written picture of the color and way of living of an older and attractive Germany that is now, and that has been for nearly half a century, as dead as Nineveh; and an extraordinarily brilliant depiction of the characters of a group of persons that makes it about as interesting a book as has been offered to the American reading public for a num-ber of years...
Several large oil portraits, mostly of the artist's family, are unusual for their direct and simple handling of subject and color. Among them is a portrait of his wife and young daughters, entitled Emma and Her Children, which was a prize winner at the recent Corcoran exhibition in Washington (TIME...
With the help of Ted Lewis, several comedians of distinctly high calibre, and a wealth of color and gorgeous effects, the "Passing Show of 1923" Monday night at the Shubert made a successful entrance among Boston's theatrical entertainments. And this in spite a tuneless score, a glaring lack of "feminine pulchritude", and a few heavy, mediocre scenes. The producer and cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times...
...used to cool the air. The inventor, George Bowerman, is experimenting with a type of quartz glass to withstand the heat. Red rays are absent from the spectrum of the big bulb, which closely resembles that of sunlight. The lamp will be used in moving picture studios and color photography. The minute sister bulb was the one used recently by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, distinguished Philadelphia surgeon, to illuminate the throat of an 8-months-old baby from which he extracted a tack...