Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another case contains a special two-volume edition of "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets." It is "illustrated with portraits, views and autograph letters; water color drawings and proof engravings illustrating Pope's work and translation." Several letters from Dr. Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds are included in this rare book...
...other thing is just another musical. Even the color of the name "Coronado," which belongs to a most swanky hotel in Lower California, and the rhythm of Eddie Duchin, a Massachusetts boy who has made good in the grand style, fail to make the picture particularly exciting. There is an adorable collegiate youngster who is everybody's pal and puts tapioca in drain pipes; he doesn't exactly prepossess...
Babies, she believed, might accomplish much musically if the pattern of the conventional piano keyboard were not meaningless to them. A child begins to discriminate between forms at from 18 to 24 months. Color discrimination comes a little later. Therefore, suggested Dr. McGraw, let piano manufacturers design a keyboard of which each key bears its own circle, square, triangle or little animal, perhaps also its own color...
...Factor does keep graduate chemists busy over the ingredients of his cosmetics, but typical of the faint air of hocus-pocus which surrounds the whole beauty industry was what guests saw at his studio last week. There was a spectroscopic contraption which, since Factor's speciality is "color harmony guidance," was supposed to show the slightest color deviation in the subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk...
...weeks before last Saint Patrick's Day, salesmen of American Chain Co. appeared in bright green neckties. Asked why representatives of a Bridgeport, Conn. concern should celebrate Saint Patrick's Day-and prematurely, at that-salesmen replied that green was the color of safety, that green traffic lights meant go ahead, that green was American Chain Co.'s official hue. In the same spirit, girls who worked for American Chain were given imitation green jade bracelets. So successful was the color idea that the June 1935 issue of Industrial Power complimented American Chain by coming...