Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether the Advocate's contest is really very funny or not is beyond the point. Much more interesting is it that it actually seems to have some money to spare, some initiative, some color. Perhaps first of all college literary magazines it has entered the field of journalism, and with no slight initial success...
...insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly while the incomparable Pam is battling with disease. The story is told economically, permits itself little deviation from formula, bristles with romance and what may be termed African color...
...story of the eager young journalist who, after swearing by G--, that his editorials were never colored by the advertising, was told that they never had much color anyhow, is just as pathetic...
...Gauthier's to attempt songs which have so long been an object of contempt and ridicule among those who profess a knowledge of the art, but she was amply rewarded by an audience which showed by its enthusiastic applause that she had revealed to it a wealth of color and artistic vigor in American jazz. George Gershwin played the accompaniments for this group and as an encore Mme. Gauthier sang his "Do It Again" and the enthusiam of her audience compelled her to do it again. Mme. Gauthier displayed herself as one with artistic ideals and with more...
Advertising makes for shady color, or no color at all; it also makes for bulk. A former English ambassador once objected that the hardest part of his day's work was reading the papers--until he was shown how the science of looking at an American paper was in overlooking most...