Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scenery for the play is of a very unusual character. Special attention has been given to the reproducing of local color and atmosphere. The sunwashed fronts of the houses, the multi-colored awnings, everything combines to convey an impression of languor and drowsiness which is essentially Spanish. The keynote of the play is struck by the admirable choice of colors, pinks and yellows predominating. Bright tiling is much in evidence, the squares being made up of vivid reds, blues, yellows, and blacks. The result is striking but at the same time one wonders how so many strong colors could have...
...Viscount Grey himself says that this last is his only true side--and from it has sprung the inspiration for his latest book, "Recreation." In this essay, which he delivered as his speech at the Union last December, the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Great Britain, discusses with color, clearness, and charm the place of recreation in a well ordered life, dealing most fully with the pastimes, which have given him most pleasure, fly-fishing, love of birds, and reading of books...
...formation of the "Old Clothes Club" at the Sheffield Scientific School. Yale has cast aside its sartorial traditions and takes its initial step in the fight for lower clothing costs. The decision to introduce a variegated color scheme into the Eli's apparel will lend a touch of brightness to the sombre shades of the campus, while the Yale profiteer-baiter may steal through dim vaults and transepts without disturbing the tranquility of the Chapel...
...Fogg Museum: two Psalters dating from the thirteenth century, and "Les Chroniques de France, dites Chroniques de St. Denis," of the fourteenth century, lent by John Pierpont Morgan, and a fourteenth century Bible lent by W. A. White of Brooklyn. All of the manuscripts contain miniatures rich in color and beautiful in execution, characteristic of the periods in which they were made...
Buckeyes are mahogany in color with a white "eye" in the middle, hence the name...