Word: colours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure and features were singularly delicate but it was her color that struck me most. ... It seemed a some-what dim white or pale grey. . . . It was not white, but alabastrian, semipellucid, showing an underlying rose colour. . . . in shadow . . . rosy purple to dim blue. The eyes . . . flamelike . . . a tender red. The hair . . . slate . . . sometimes intensely black . . . sometimes white as a noonday cloud...
...Lipshutz categorized as follows: "The first group was the social group. Nice-young-men-from-good-families, who made up the more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all families, who sat in the rear of the rooms and cried their vices to each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess...
Also beginning Monday, May 20, the students in the School of Architecture will hold an exhibition in Robinson Hall, showing their work in freehand, life drawing, water colour, etc. On the basis of this display will be awarded the Eugene Dodd Medal which is given annually to the best student in freehand and water colour in a given year...
...election itself. True, the Times correspondent emphasized that there was no violence at the election; but it would be somewhat naive, to say the least, to assume that therefore the election was a fair one. Whether the ballots were exactly alike, and not distinguished from each other by colour or in some other way, whether people voted in the same booths for both candidates, these and similar "details" are not known. Yet without such details it is impossible to say whether the elections were free...
...gala crowd of some five hundred people attired in costumes ranging from the prehistoric to Victorian and modern ties, were on hand to lend colour to the spectacular fire in the Iroquois Club, early Saturday morning about 3.30 o'clock...