Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the majority report of the Senate Judiciary Committee, presented to the Senate the day after Jack Garner departed. That coincidence lent color to reports that the reason the President had been willing to excuse Oldster Garner from duty, was that the Vice President had grown more and more to side with those "free representatives" who want to kick over New Deal traces...
Whatever the reason, last week's ceremony of Trooping the Color, high spot in all King's Birthday celebrations, went off with unction and dispatch. Crowds as dense as those for the Coronation itself jammed the Mall from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade back of Whitehall, packed solidly the rim of that vast parade ground. Forming three sides of a hollow square of bulbous bearskins and scarlet coats stood eight companies, chosen from the five regiments of the Brigade of Guards...
...speech there could be no doubt that Governor Earle had undertaken a great feat, never before performed by man: having made a political crossing of the color line, to make a political crossing of the Mason-Dixon...
Quite apart from these external matters the canvas contains within itself a wealth of interest in color and design and painter's craftsmanship. The yellowish pink of the coat, subtly blended, carries enough red to harmonize with the man's ruddy face and brown hair. The white of the neck-cloth, dotted with red, arbitrates between...
...great vigor of all the color is a reminder of the vermilion uniforms which Goya so well recorded in his court portraits or the beautiful black, white and blue of the portrait in the Museum of Eme Arts...