Word: colorfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reel. Neither she nor her relatives need fear any toughness in this city. There ain't no such thing any more. This town is as tame now as a long tailed lamb. All its toughness was rubbed out long ago along with all its romance and color by the Scizzorbills and Carpetbaggers who scrambled in here after the big Quake and Fire. . . . No, the little lady can assure her relatives back East that they'll be perfectly safe in S. F. especially in the neighborhood where she lives since the Pastor of that church, she refers...
...specially developed sand paint prevents reflection of sunlight from windows (which would catch the eye of an enemy aviator), but permits light to pass through them. The paint jobs are executed by C. & T. Painters, Ltd., who have circulated a handsome brochure with "before and after" color photographs. The price: around 18? per square yard of masquerade (but the British Government foots half the bill...
...live on its reputation, and insist that' it earn one in our time and with our help. I do not believe it a less scholarly enterprise to investigate the effects of aluminum on sculptural form, the relation between function and proportion in the automobile, or the color dynamics of the animated cartoon, than to explore the use of oil medium by the Van Eycks, the color-orchestration of the Venetians, or the perspective of Piero della Francesca. The question, to me, is not whether the work of Disney is art or non-art, but whether we can bring to fruition...
...city many gentlemen are allowing their whiskers to grow in order to furnish a little color for the world premiere of the picture Union Pacific which will be shown this spring at three local motion picture houses. The premiere will last two days...
...Janis, a Manhattan connoisseur, was strolling through the annual outdoor exhibition of artists on Washington Square. Primitive most of the pictures were, but truly Primitive were those of an unknown named William Doriani. Last week, amid sophisticated hosannas on 57th Street, the works of Tenor Doriani painted in fresh color patterns with flattened childish figures, were exhibited at the Marie Harriman Gallery as pure naïve paintings in a class with those of the late Pittsburgh House Painter John Kane...