Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PLEASE ABANDON DESCRIPTIVE TERM APPLE-CHEEKED IN CONNECTION WITH ENGLISH-GIRL MACDONALD STOP MISLEADING IN SUGGESTING SHAPE AS WELL AS COLOR PERSONALLY OBNOXIOUS SUGGEST TIMES FRUIT & VEGETABLE EDITOR CONSIDER VARIATIONS IN SEASON...
Jacques La Grange, British subject of French parentage, who has lived in the U. S. since 1916, gave an exhibition last week at Manhattan's Babcock Galleries. The paintings, of ships, of skyscrapers, occasionally of ships and skyscrapers were technically inept, showed an excellent color sense. Critics compared them to the oilpaint fumblings of Colyumist Heywood Broun last week on view and for sale at the Weyhe Galleries, called them promising, uninteresting. Much more interesting was Painter La Grange's method of disposing of his pictures...
...discovery of a white animal belong- ing to a species whose members are usually dark in color, calls forth a religious ceremony in savage countries, a news story in civilized countries. Last week, members of the San Diego Zoological Society ex- pedition to hunt the rare Townsend fur seal, told newsgatherers that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white...
Scientists have seen the white seals of Guadalupe Island before, have reported that the animals are really tawny in color, not white. Best zoological opinion insists that there are no true albino seals. The Guadalupe animals have been bleached to their present yellow by much basking in the semitropical...
...learn to love the wash of the racing brooks over their beds in spring, who never experiences the repose to be found on lakes and river, who has not stood enthralled upon the top of Moosilanke on a moon-light night or has not become a worshiper of color as he has seen the sun set from one of Hanover's hills, who has not thrilled at the whiteness of the snowclad countryside in winter or at the flaming forest colors of the fall I would insist that this man has not reached out for some of the most worth...