Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...startling and thorough. Although I devoted, as requested, special pains and over 3,000 words to the gowning of my theme, when it actually appeared it was only half clothed--and radically differently, at that. Most of the scholarly detail was mutilated or entirely missing. In several places, decent color was suggestively heightened. The egotistical tiara which concluded the new version was made from foolscap, paste, and ink not of my manufacture and was substituted for the constructive suggestions which alone gave excuse and meaning to my design. Lastly, the editors of Liberty, possessed by an extreme Annanias complex, left...
...become the fashion for critics of higher education in the U. S. to point with pride to Oxford, whether they have ever been there or not, as the archetype of all that is liberal and humanistic in a university. Nor is the comparison without color on many academic counts. On the social side, however, much is left unsaid. On Oxford's rule-books stand many quaint restrictions hanging over from the crabbed past-curfew hours, the wearing of gowns (however abbreviated and however disreputably tattered), places to be seen in and not to be seen in, absence from town...
...Loomis of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., and Professor Robert W. Wood of Johns Hopkins University. The latter, many a layman recalled, is a genius of wide and varied activities. It was he who devised the method now so common of thawing frozen water pipes by passing electricity through them. Color photography and extensive researches on light have earned him important medals. He has studied secret signaling. He has written diverting fiction as well as three volumes on physical optics. His woodcuts are well-known, especially those illustrating the nonsense rhymes, How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers. And besides...
Pick your winning color said Carl Van Vechten as he finished his "Nigger Heaven" and went into Childs...
Privately run jails for young ladies of rich families make special dispensations for escape from 2 until 5.30 so that young chits who spend week-days learning what color stationery to use, may really learn about life, as 53,000 people live in the Harvard Stadium. And the poor starved idiots come and ape their bettens by talking about the wonder grows when the newspapers get hold of it. A nice, comfortable little crowed of 10,000 become 75,000 in the Sunday morning mammoths...