Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DARK PLACES-John Russell- Knopf ($2.50). Twelve tales of savage environments and more or less savage people by the author of Where the Pavement Ends. A tourist searches for "the color of the East" and finds it strangely crim-son-a tropical grafter fights to the death so no one may rob his superiors but himself-criminals, escaping on a former slave ship fall into the hands of the deadly justice of the vampire bats-and so on. The yarns are varied, colorful, exciting, skilfully told, with a knowledge of strange lands and stranger characters that is obviously firsthand. Neither...
Recent progress in knowledge of the tubercle bacillus gives color to hopes that the deadly little beast may in the near future surrender unconditionally to the siege of preventive medicine. The most interesting med-cal news of the week was the, announcement by Dr. Georges Dreyer, professor of pathology at Oxford University, of a successful method of inoculation in tuberculous guinea-pigs and other animals...
...some of the greatest masters of the Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, and German schools. Among them there are very fine and delicate pencil drawings by lugres, a drawing in red chalk by Correggio, wonderful pen drawings by Rembrandt, wash drawings by Bernini and Giulio Romano, and drawings in color by Rubens and Holbein...
Only condolences and sympathy are in order for those whom the heat of yesterday afternoon drove away before the Great Ninth Inning. Others who allowed the predominant blue color of the score up to and even including the seventh inning to sway their scorched spirits in the direction of the exits are suffering sufficiently now to make any recriminations useless. Those who remained had the faith which moves mountains, and as the sun was setting they saw the mountains move...
...must keep its vitality, even at the expense of losing some of its "literary" quality. Such slovenly usage as is to be found in the weakening of the words "pretty", "nice", "fine", and their like is distinctly "bum", but new words--even such plebeian ones as "bum"--often add color to the language. The beauty of English is that it can easily assimilates such new words and phrases, and can sift out the slang which it finds worthy of keeping...