Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roamed Europe, sudying political economy, writing political tracts, making political friends, deepening her political color sense. She met Lenin in London, Trotsky in New York City. She joined the old Russian Social Democratic Party before there was a Communist (Bolshevik) Party. When the split came, she spurned the Bolsheviki (the majority), embraced the Mensheviki (the minority), and went back to St. Petersburg to take a small hand in the 1905 uprisings. In 1911 she was fighting capitalism in Paris, in 1912, militarism in Stockholm, in 1913, anti-Semitism in London...
Nobody was lovelier than blonde, Garboesque Mme. Hägglöf, graceful bride of the Swedish Charge. Nobody was fancier than the Norwegian Ambassador wearing every shape, cast, color and size of medal, decoration and ribbon. The new Ethiopian Minister, small and black, shone in his gold-braided costume. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr walked like a new Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar...
...scratch; 2) the softer plastic is more "sympathetic" than glass to the tissues around the eye; 3) plastic eyes look more natural than glass eyes because they reflect less light; 4) plastic eyes do not explode (glass eyes sometimes do, from changes in temperature); 5) plastic eyes keep their color and stay shiny longer than glass eyes (unlike glass eyes which are usually put in water overnight, they are often worn constantly, get little handling). Price...
Every two months subway riders saw other prints (13 in all). Soon the line of purchasers at the Museum turned from a timid trickle into a demand. By last week the Metropolitan had sold 60,000 ("Wonderful and amazing," says Ideaman Jayne) of its gay reproductions ("Bright color sells," he adds), including prints by Winslow Homer (Natural Bridge), Claude Monet (Sunflowers), Edgar Degas (Woman with Chrysanthemums). All prints are without lettering, suitable for framing. Best-seller was the Lawrence lush, sentimental Calmady Children (now out of print). Only modern represented...
Soon subway riders found themselves staring at Sir Thomas Lawrence's The Calmady Children, in color on a car card loudly labeled GREAT ART, unaccompanied by any text other than names of artist, picture and Museum director, and the fact that a print of the painting could be had by mail from the Metropolitan for 15? (or 10? at the Museum...