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...Lowry, R.N., writes as follows: A neckerchief usually of black silk was worn around the neck, and was sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship's company of the Berwick who, in 1794, went into mourning for their Captain...
...students] lay closely packed together, covered, for warmth's sake, with their patched and ragged clothes, little could be distinguished but the sharp outlines of pale faces, over which the sombre light shed the same dull heavy colour...
...often have. . . 'Gabriella Sports' is now owned by Countess di Robilant [the former Carolyn Kent of Asheville, N.C.], who . . . makes most of the dresses. . . . There's beautiful, pure silk shantung to be had here (all fabrics are fabulously high-priced), which she uses in lovely colour combinations...
Most illuminating are the shots made under the direction of brilliant, free-lance New Zealander Len Lye (Kill or Be Killed, Colour Box), which make up the bulk of the film. Lye's Dublin streets, obsessed faces and magical landscapes (made largely in bleak Galway) capture depths of mysticism which are beyond the reach of most words...
...Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme: "People ask me why English spy stories are generally better than American. The answer is easy. . . . In both World Wars British Intelligence in and out of Germany had been excellent...