Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives himself as proof. In middle age he was crippled, given up to die. "Right food" cured him. Once he was bald. "Right food" grew his hair again. By changing food he twice changed the color of his hair. He keeps it silvery now because Mrs. Estes likes it that...
...another canvas of a man, a girl, five setters and a shotgun. Another more acute Academician discovered that, line for line, stroke for stroke, it was a copy of a picture by one H. Septimus Power now hanging in the National Gallery in Sydney, Australia, and reproduced in full color in the 1927 Christmas annual of Table Talk. Then came the disclosures: Stephen Bransgrove A. N. A. apparently never painted an original stroke in his life. Directors of the National Gallery in Sydney had purchased one Bransgrove canvas and were about to purchase another. Originals of both were covers...
...Neither Tenor George Metaxa, whose wife was killed in an automobile accident last March, nor Elsbeth ("Libby") Hoiman Reynolds, whose husband was mysteriously shot two years before, add much to the color or amusement of the proceedings. Fluffy-haired old Charles Winninger gets his biggest laugh when, as the rutty governor, he falls into a mill race filled with real water...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Large, massive, oblong skull, flesh pretty well messed up with scars, folds and wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever...
...MILLIONS -- When you pack into one film Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, t h e gags of Sheekman, Perrin and Johnson, the songs of Donaldson, K a h n, Lane, Adamson and Berlin, the dances of Seymour Felix, and the color combinations of Willy Pogany you have a Goldwynesque extravaganza that will wow you for a full hour and a half without the slightest bit of effort on your part. Despite the fact that some of the gags are already great-grandparents, Director Roy Del Ruth puts the products of these stars together into such a truly creditable production that...