Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Class spirit", complains a Cornell paper, "seems to be sadly on the wane. . . . It seems a pity that such should be the case". The annual mud rush lacks the vigor it formerly had. At Dartmouth it is found that this year's freshman-sophomore picture war "lends color to the impression that the fight is a nuisance anyway, and had best be abolished". Such a condition is criticised by a college graduate who recalls in a letter to a Philadelphia paper the "good old days" when "Yea, Rowbottom" at Pennsylvania and "Reinhardt" at Harvard were live traditions...
...novel and with no mention of the previous copyright, The Sea-Hawk is really a reprint of one of Sabatini's first novels. For that very reason, however, it is much better than his later and more successful but less brilliantly written romances. Both in style and color The Sea-Hawk continues the best traditions of the historical romance written frankly for pleasure and excitement. Sabatini is not at all "the modern Dumas" as some critics insist on calling him. He doesn't write in the grand manner of the great Frenchman, but rather on the smaller...
...museum was the embryo of the circus " side show." " Curiosities natural and unnatural ": the Feegee Mermaid, the diorama of Napoleon's funeral, the negro who had cured his skin of " color" and who predicted the fading out of slavery, cannibals and grotesque sea monsters, beauty shows and the Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself were only some of the sensations propagated by the " master of monstrosities...
...different matter. Like Helen of Troy's beauty, it is more often glowingly mentioned than accurately described. But three things might be said of it: it is technically practically flawless; it has beauty of color and vigorous line achieved with the fewest possible strokes; occasionally it fails in insight in spite of Sargent's far-famed "ability to render character." He is a marvelous ob- server of externals and sometimes- but not always-of inner truths about his sitters...
Mark Kent, as Jerry, the "gent", and Houston Richards as a dope field got the most out of picturesque parts. As the proprietress of a low-life Chinese pleasure palace, Miss Roach by her gestures and pronunciation added color to a colorful characterization...