Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen. He published the first ship news, had a sailboat go out to Montauk Point to meet incoming ships. He had correspondents in Washington, D. C., who did not stop at handouts...
Frisco. Whatever effect his opinions might have on the color of the World's columns, voluntary or involuntary, it was agreed that in all the technicalities of the job Renaud was well equipped to succeed his vociferous predecessor...
...credit of the Freshmen, however, 11 more can swim, 60 less wear glasses, and 10 are color-blind, as compared to 14 Sophomores...
...difference between the "idol of fandom" and the man who is hissed out of a ring is entirely a matter of personality. Writers have called it "color", that intangible quality that makes a Cobb or a Ruth or a Dempsey. If a man possesses it, college education will iron it out of him. The Bachelor or Arts who hears a symphony of boos when he steps into a ring would hear the anvil chorus if he had never gone to college. It is a gift, no more and no less. And to him that hath shall be given...
...Color cinema...