Word: hue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson went abroad to study while still in his 20s, and returned to the U.S. with far more knowledge of his craft than Gauguin could boast. He painted to please his customers, in the accepted tradition of sentimental realism. Tobacco-juice brown was his favorite hue. A particularly crabbed critic once remarked that Johnson's best work "ranges from cute to nice," but it did please the customers. Johnson died famous in 1906, and descended at once into obscurity...
...House of Assembly, United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss rose in deadly earnest to denounce the new bill as "bogus" and "a fraud." All week long the House hotly debated the bill. In all the hue & cry, the hurling of insults and shaking of fists, Malan was the calmest man there. He had the votes...
Though Phil Murray belittled the hue & cry over the constitutionality of seizing the steel mills last week, he might have begun to have some private doubts about the whole principle of Government seizure. Since August 1950, when the President acted to forestall a strike, the Secretary of the Army has been in charge of the nation's railways. The workers have not got the pay raise they demand, and now they want to strike against the Government. Last week a federal court in Cleveland gave them their answer: an injunction barring a strike. Cried James P. Shields, Grand Chief...
...week planted themselves in the streets outside of tradesmen's shops and called their "crimes" to public attention in ear-splitting indictment. Panicked merchants, businessmen and petty public servants raced from their hiding places by the thousand to seek doubtful sanctuary in public confession or to join the hue and cry, and hunt with the hunters...
...azure hue It certainly does make you proud...