Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baby's Clothes:" This is the first time that I can recall where you put the only real fact of an article in its footnote: " "In Catholic countries blue (the Virgin's color) is used for girls and pink for boys." That is new news to me and rationalizes a "fashion." I appre ciate also your telling me the important department stores of eight great cities. Otherwise this article is twiddle-twoddle...
...bovine; there is content. The tramp of tens of thousands of shuffling feet, the clink of colas in the Salvation Army blanket, the dolorous wheeze of the organ man, the shouts of the game extras, the smell of popcorn and frankfurters--these are what the artist designates as local color. And the fact that the scene passes, not to be viewed again until another autumn makes it more impressive and more indelible...
...poems have a decidedly mid-Victorian flavor and religious scent. Only as admirable examples of imagination and poetic color can they be placed on the bookshelves of the appreciative...
...Catholic countries (France, Belgium, Spain, etc.) blue (the Virgin's color) is used for girls and pink for boys...
...amused himself with journeys into the damp green mysteries of Africa, with elephant hunting, exploring and literature. His former opus, Among Pygmies and Gorillas, was an account of a zoological probe into the centre of the dark continent. This is a volume of short stories; love stories, African anecdotes, color stories about a chief who understood black magic, a leopard hunt, a march of wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also for bears who ride bicycles. But the literary lapses of Prince William...