Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many Americans resent the French doctrine of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, when applied to Negroes. Several disagreeable incidents have occured when the tourists have strenuously objected to the rising tide of color in Montmartre...
Foreign Office issued a communiqué, directing the police to protect Frenchmen at all costs, regardless of color, and threatening offensive tourists with expulsion if they tried to import Jim Crow tactics. France needs the loyalty of her colored colonies even more than she needs the cash of American tourists...
...Josiah Wedgwood. But he and his son of the same name, as well as Aaron and Enoch, relatives, established a pottery school of distinct originality. Their glazed figurines, known to connoisseurs as the equals of Chinese Ming, have a sculpturesque strength of modeling and a variety of contrasting colors that have made them beloved of collectors. A collection of Ralph Wood pottery which has taken 16 years to assemble is being shown at the Partridge Gallery, London. Statuettes of Benjamin Franklin, Alderman Beckford, George Whitefield, equestrian figures, fantastic animal pieces, Toby jugs, originally sold for a few shillings...
...authenticated Vermeers known - eight in the United States- and it is almost a certainty that more will be unearthed from the dust of European attics. Apart from their rarity, the qualities which give Vermeer's canvases their coveted value are their handling of light and color (his favorite tones were blue and lemon yellow), and a certain noble serenity of atmosphere that has never been surpassed. He painted chiefly genre pieces and" homely portraits of the Dutch bourgeosie, but has two known landscapes in Dutch galleries, and a Christ with Mary and Martha in the Coats collection, Glasgow...
Vigoroux, however, is not the only muckraker, and some French critics have lent color to his charges. The Metropolitan authorities are still standing pat. Edward Robinson, director, is abroad, presumably to make a first-hand investigation. Mr. Breck and other Museum employees refuse to talk. And Robert W. DeForrest, President of the trustees, while not claiming infallibility for the Museum's treasures, has confidence in the judgment of the purchasing committee, composed of experts and collectors who scrutinize every object the Museum buys...