Word: colorfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They carved wooden spikes, painted them iron-color, inserted them in place of the removed ones. The light Japanese trains crossed the rails without causing them to spread, but when the heavy munition cars came along the wooden spikes broke, spilled the cars on the trackside. This ruse has derailed over 30 trains south of Peiping in the last three months...
...unnamed beach summer before last an unnamed hypogonadal (undersexed) man lay down in "an abbreviated bathing suit of peculiar cut." He lay there for seven broiling August afternoons and scarcely changed color...
...Tanning," concluded the scientists, formulating in Science last week a convincing explanation of the action of sunlight on the skin, "may be a 'photographic-like process' of 'exposure' and 'development,' with the sex hormone acting to 'develop' color-lacking material laid down in the skin by exposure [to the sun]. . . . This 'developing' action may be exerted as late as five months after exposure...
...Mississippi, the Suwannee have been covered. One of the most promising publisher's projects of the decade. Rivers of America is conceived as "a literary and not an historical series." Unfortunately it is distinguished neither as literature nor as history. The worst features of regional writing-shallow local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers. As an example of such journalism, Powder River is no worse than its predecessors, except that Struthers Burt, 56-year-old Philadelphian, best-selling novelist and owner...
...standard of "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" but good entertainment nevertheless, Alexander Korda's new movie, "Drums," at Keith Memorial this week, shows how far excellent color and exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...