Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reorganized House next January will go a whopping number of new members. Whatever they may lack in polish and statesmanship, and whatever they do to Harry Truman's plans, they will add much to the life, color, success or failure of the Both Congress. Some of them...
Many U.N. delegates, like Eliot, last week lamented the oppressive necessity of committee labors, as they left the soothing color schemes of the Flushing Meadows Assembly Hall and moved into the modernistic maze of council chambers at Lake Success. But, dreary as the impending committee sessions might be, they held greater promise of concrete accomplishment than the past week of oratory. The delegates would do their real work and fight their real battles in six main committees (each composed of representatives of all 51 United Nations...
...refrigeration room. Refreshed, he was introduced next day to a new Long Security, curled up for the morning's work. He was then carried happily off to be ground up for oil. The offspring of this union is a formidable tyke, capable of producing silk evener in color, stronger and slightly sheerer (thinner) than Japan's prewar best. In due course, the Japs hope to find him out on many an American limb...
...pink and purple Bathers was among Renoir's first postgraduate masterpieces. It took hundreds of preparatory drawings and three years of painting to finish, but with The Bathers Renoir got around to combining his new-found "living and restless" line and the vibrant, light-filled color which impressionism had given...
...Wollaston, Massachusetts, Miss Gordon's play tells, with rich local color, the story of her early passion to be an actress and of how she convinced her parents to let her have a fling at it. The play has humor, pathos, and great insight into both parents and daughter. In addition, it never degenerates into a period version of "Junior Miss" or "Kiss and Tell." This is no small accomplishment considering that the girl connives behind her father's back, has two adulating friends who are as interested in her problems as she is herself, and repulses all advances made...