Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stops with a master's assurance, but his tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula Bustaba, 12, of Chicago, who learned the violin's four strings by means of color: Bennie Steinberg, 12, of Baltimore; Oskar Shumsky, 12, of Philadelphia...
...strongly oppose any, plan which would make up an entire entry of intimate friends, but they have excellent ground for doing so. Since the occupancy of the rooms is to extend over a period of three years, there would be a tendency for certain entries to take on the color of exclusive clubs. Such a tendency would smack dangerously of the fraternity atmosphere so foreign to the usual spirit of Harvard...
...could then work anywhere and the murals, when finished, could be easily moved about. He then asked himself what paint had had the benefit of most research and chemical improvement. Obviously, automobile-paint. He hired a workshop, made sketches in pen, pencil, paint. Models of every race and color trooped in and out. The better to understand three-dimensional space he first modelled his groups so that he could look down upon their heads and look behind them to find what masses would organize best, what planes intersect. Then he loaded his big brush with auto-paint and started...
...slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There are no pretty girls, no idealization, no gold leaf...
...Milan, Italy, a woman tried to pay a shopkeeper with coins of suspiciously leaden color. He turned her over to the police. While she wailed, protested she was not a counterfeiter, they examined her handbag, found that a small thermometer had broken, releasing mercury which had formed amalgam on the coins...