Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that the case was almost entirely airless. A small motor pumped through a cranny only "the minimum amount of air necessary to sustain life." Stretching his length on an operating table, he had his arteries opened, his blood tested. He was glad to be blue, because this color change and the blood tests proved that he was right in his theory that there is not enough oxygen in the blood to compensate for loss of air even under the most favorable circumstances...
...individual was clad like no other clerk in the history of Wall Street. He had on a pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending over desks and adding machines, all accoutred in blue denim smocks; behind a door marked "Private" bustled J. P. Benkard himself in a blue denim smock; and out on the runners' bench...
...Fountain. Eugene O'Neill is generally pointed at with pride as the foremost dramatist in America. He works with color, feeling, fear, with realism and occasionally with bitterness. He has an uncanny gift of breathing life into his pen puppets. He is certainly a genius...
...practice in writing on gleanings from the newspapers develops the 'daily theme eye,' which is to the writer what color values are to the artist; that is, the ability daily to see possibilities in and connect ideas with, seemingly insignificant subjects...
...audience is able to appreciate true dramatic art which is only obtained when the actor makes of his role a vehicle for an interpretation as part of himself. The playwright furnishes only a black and white sketch of his play. It is for each individual actor to add the color. When one actor gives an exceptionally good interpretation of one role but is not above the ordinary in others, he is like a diamond with only a single polished facet. That facet may be beautiful in itself but the diamond itself is not beautiful till other facets are polished. That...