Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark ivory with blue trim, bear the legend "Designed by Florenz Ziegfeld." Officials of the railway explained that the innovation grew out of a magazine article by Showman Ziegfeld criticizing the drabness of streetcars. Later, at a trolleyman's conference in Manhattan Showman Ziegfeld was invited to submit color schemes, of which the ivory & blue was accepted...
...Atlanta white women have cervical cancer. Thinking that Negroes might have black cancer more often than Dr. Matas et al. believed, Dr. Bishop went hunting for dark moles on full-blooded cancerous Negroes. For clues he looked first at their soles and palms and around their nails where the color is slightly lighter than elsewhere, moles more discernible. He found his moles, proved that the cancers were unsuspected melanomata...
...very extreme, but they gave him a panel, 7 ft. by 8 ft. at the end of a corridor leading to Carpenter Hall, to put up a sample. Muralist Orozco summoned his assistant, Master Plasterer Juan Jorge Crespo, and went to work. They produced a fresco in vibrant Mexican color entitled "Man Released from the Mechanistic." It showed a mass of broken machinery-cannon, gears, buzzsaws, bayonets and distilling worms-out of which is arising a naked youth with a cauliflower ear and a bright shoe-button eye, who seems to be violently clapping his hands...
During the month of June the Fogg Museum will exhibit water color studies and sketches by Lewis W. Rubenstein, holder of the Bacon Art Scholarship...
...Governors assembled in the long narrow board room opening upon the grimy interior court of the Treasury building. Around its brownish-yellow walls hung many a chart, their graphs ending in dismal downward dips. (Zigzags were all in black & white because color-blind Governor Meyer has trouble with reds and greens.) After handshakes all around, the Board and its visiting officials settled down in black leather swivel chairs around a long mahogany table for an all-day session...