Word: colors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signalized its successful consummation. Cables report that the "iron house" has been definitely launched in Britain. The new structures are made of large cast plates bolted together and a thin outer coating of cement is applied for "effect" and protection. Bright red tiled roofs and porches of the same color are said to have appealed greatly to the mine laborers for whom the houses have been especially designed. Before drawing up the architectural plans, the miners were canvassed thoroughly to determine what "features" they desired. Replied a large majority of the future grimy tenants: "We want a bathtub...
These books are published in the name of municipal individualism. With spectacular adjectival vehemence, the authors shout into the thickening ears of young U. S. cities, loud reminders of the peculiar zest and color of their rambunctious settler days, laying special emphasis on downright iniquitous conduct that is calculated to cover the adipose priests of respectability with shame for their own vegetating passions. The books are part of a current crusade against standardization and the civic inferiority complex that leads Kansas to ape California, Montana to mimic Minnesota, in their timorous search for "the right thing...
...Court is desirable in itself, as also is the type of organization, which is planned. Yet, even if the Princeton convention accomplishes nothing in the way of concrete results, it will still have been worth while merely as a trustworthy indication that American colleges are losing that peculiar political color blindness which has been theirs since the armistice. The University may congratulate itself on having been intimately connected with the inception of this movement...
...what end? Their Gargantuan efforts have certainly not blessed the world with a new Republic of wisdom and virtue. No one but a blind optimist would pretend so. What the mammoth machine has done is to make society over by creating a new class which has given the characteristic color to American life: a complacent, materialistic, pleasure-seeking class of half-educated men and women...
...think it is a fact--a regrettable fact that around Boston the majority of people are against Harvard, and I find in talking with a number of them it is because they think Harvard is "stuck up", and such an incident as this lends color to that thought...