Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following his counsel, I have noted many social implications in the grand parade in and out of the famous Yard. Not the least of them is a sign of disintegration of the individuality and vitality--a loss of color, if you please--in American womanhood...
Arise, American womanhood. Bring color and personality back, especially to the tiresome scenery along the weary routes of the commuters' traine. --E. L., an average commuter
...between the halves. Each seat in the nominal cheering section will have a piece of cardboard, crimson on one side and white on the other. The cheerleaders will signal a number to the men in the stands, who will merely have to look on their cards to see which color is appropriate for their positions. Another signal and the Harvard side of the Stadium will metamorphose from a sea of drab overcoats into waves of color, depicting "the banks of the old Raritan," bears, bulldogs, or what-have...
...basement. ¶ The Argentine envoys, who arrived early and ensconced themselves at the Waldorf-Astoria, excited the envy of other Latin American delegations unable to find lodgings on Park Avenue. The British were at Essex House, handy for early-morning constitutionals in Central Park. The Liberian delegation found the color line nonexistent at Brooklyn's elegant St. George. The astonishingly anonymous-looking U.S. delegation (see cut) had a whole floor at the Pennsylvania. ¶ Senator Connally, with more than 150 other westbound diplomats, was on the Queen Elizabeth, making its first peacetime voyage (see BUSINESS). The most rubbered...
...makers of Margie had the good taste, good sense and steady hands to avoid cuteness, undue hokum and the extremes of either patronizing burlesque or sticky sentiment. The acting is restrained and sometimes touching, the color pleasant, the music nostalgic (Avalon, I'll See You in My Dreams, Three O'Clock in the Morning). As Jeanne's grandmother remarks somewhere in the story: "At your age, child, everything is wonderful." Margie's camera somehow manages to look at things with a 16-year-old's wonderful perspective. Oldsters now crowding 40 can be grateful...