Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan drawing room bloomed with soft red light. A company of people, stained with the same grave color, sat staring at a pair of red plush curtains. It was a breathless moment. Once the curtains, brushed from behind by a moving shape, vaguely stirred, and then an excited whisper rippled over the red room and vanished in diminishing circles of sound, as if a crumb had been dropped into a pool of claret...
Capitalistic enterprises, however, are not alone responsible for American imperialism in the Pacific. The people who gaze proudly at the blotch of color on the map which represents "our island empire" or speak complacently of bringing civilization to the natives are equally to blame for this continued departure from American principles. Philippine nationalists are grimly convinced that America is being given a distorted picture of conditions there. Their attempt to forbid the mailing of photographs of the tribes on the outlying islands was the result of this feeling. In reality the Philippines have attained a high degree of civilization according...
There are various ways of "teaching" art. One way is to provide a student with a large tome in which the pictures of various masters are reproduced in color, with a tabloid criticism appended at the bottom of the page. The students regard the picture, memorize the criticism. Once or twice a week they listen to a lecture by a professor and take notes...
...past two days a large Packard touring car has been circulating about the outlying buildings of the University, snapping shots of students going to examinations and other items of local color, under the chaperonage of several members of the Student Council...
...President Lowell consents to having the photographers invade the Yard the remainder of the local color scenes will be taken as soon as possible, and then the films will be shipped to the Pacific coast for continuity...