Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While a New Yorker's "thoity-thoid street" grates on certain sensitive ears, so does a Southerner's "Ah" for "I." So, let's call the whole thing off. . . . Let the New Englander retain his nasal twang; it adds flavor and color. Let us not have a Civil War about...
Famed British off-color-storyteller, Max Miller, got the only laugh in which Their Majesties could not very well join. Unlike the rest of the audience, King George and Queen Elizabeth apparently did not know the end of the extremely old and questionable anecdote which Mr. Miller began to tell, then brought down the breathless house by glancing at the Royal Box and breaking off "No, no! I can't tell this one tonight!" Instead Max told the one about the girl who said to him "Aren't you ugly...
...Women's cigarets which produce smoke in any desired color...
...sometimes forbidding, contains no trace of modernistic tricks or formulas. As he once remarked to his publisher (in Swedish) "Här i utlandet fabricemr ni cocktails i olika külorer, och nu kommer jag med rena källvattnet" ("Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure cold water...
...York, As Grover Whalen, its president, is quick to point out, the 1939 New York World's Fair is a bird of a very different color from the Paris Exposition. Instead of a government-conceived, directed and subsidized essay in national propaganda, it is a privately-conceived and financed attempt by New York businessmen to drum up new trade. Inspired by the success in this respect of the Chicago A Century of Progress in 1933-34, 118 leading New Yorkers in 1935 formed New York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers...