Word: hues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME would drop the use of such words, and would change its "screaming red cover" to one of quieter hue, it would please the more conservative taste of some of its readers. ALICE DRESSER BARTHOLOMEW...
...evidence has developed sufficient to justify a retrial. Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers, quoting from the trial records, point out 815?. Prosecutors Katzmann and Williams stressed the facts that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti had ln 1917, dodged the draft by going to Mexico, that both were Reds of the most crimson hue. Cross-examining Mr. Sacco, District Attorney Katzmann drew from him a long speech, in whose broken, halting English the law-abiding Massachusetts gentlemen of the jury heard a Communist's brief for Communism. Said Mr. Sacco after telling how he had come to thei Fm -:, believing...
Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
More of Amateur Darrow's philosophizings: "Nobody knows whether a black face is any less attractive than a white one. I say white, you know, although there is no such color. We noble Nordics are a sort of ashen-grey hue. . . . The fact that there are so many Negroes who are not colored shows how frequently colored girls have been raped by white men. "I was born where they believed he [a Negro] was better than the whites [at Kinsman, Ohio...
...American aristocracy must be nursed with flattery..... The farseeing painter will see that the shades of hair, face and eyes comply with the subject's desires, whether they match the actualities or not. . . . Everything has to be subordinated to the lips and the hue of the face powder. If we get those two right, the rest is easy. ... If I have any difficulty with the eyes, I generally paint them almost blue. One can never go wrong with blue...