Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left entirely to the decision of the people of Italy. . . . Inasmuch as a change is to be made, it should be made without delay. ... It should not be hampered by anything related to the past regime of Fascism. . . o The provisional government should have no taint, color or even smell of the old order of Fascism. ... I feel that the King should be retired either because he deserves a rest or because the country needs a rest. The important thing is to put him into active retirement where he would have no voice or say in the affairs...
...waking hours of Lady in the Dark are sleek and engaging, with plenty of highly varnished dialogue and playing. Editor Elliott's dreams and the flashbacks to her youth come in every color of the rainbow and a few besides. She dreams (amid dry-ice mist and nacreous space) of getting a magnificent blue dress in which Mr. Milland paints her portrait-a cruel caricature of her old-maidishness. She dreams (in white and gold) of climbing a gigantic wedding cake while vast choirs shout her praises. She dreams (in candy colors) of a circus which turns into...
Burleigh's mother put herself through college, expecting to become a school teacher. Turned down because of her color, she became the housemaid of a wealthy Erie music lover. Between jobs as a houseboy, newsboy, lamplighter, etc., young Harry attended Erie concerts...
Manhattan importers were six months, behind with their orders. Porcelain fanciers, in an invisible but impatient queue, waited last week for their ceramic birds, which they bought as fast as they could be imported from Britain. The superbly color-glazed, life-sized birds, perched in natural flower and branch settings, cost from $250 to $475 a pair...
...first small batch of year-end earnings reports trickled in last week. At a quick glance, 1943 seemed to have been a rosy year for U.S. business, perhaps better than 1942. And even on longer second glance, much of the rosy tint held up under a grey-colored fact. The fact: many a corporation, slashed by renegotiation, squeezed by taxes, soaring costs and OPA ceilings, has reached its profit peak or is already over the hump and on the way down. But the rosy color held up generally because, in spite of everything, most companies were still making big money...