Word: hues
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...priest in charge-who did not know their real identity-read the newspaper stories about two missing boys, he became suspicious of his new students. But, on Feb. 3, just after he had tipped off the police, the boys disappeared again. The next afternoon, while newspapers raised a hue & cry throughout France, arrests began. Handsome Mère Antonine, 44, the superior of a Grenoble convent, was the first to be jailed, charged with complicity in the escape...
...which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems, as another man would scrawl his name, he sketched fence, farmhouse trees and far-off mill into deep, cold stillness...
...color. "We live in a world of color," he says. "It's a tremendous study." Lloyd has gone at color like a salmon after a fly; he has spent months interviewing experts, thumbed all the books he can find on color theory, collected and catalogued samples of every hue of paint manufactured in the U.S. and abroad. He began by working out color harmonies of his own on swatches of canvas, finally switched to painting...
Dong Manchester, ailing slightly will not play unless he is in top shape according to team members. But Welland has drummed up a good looking hue consisting of George Chase at right wing. Frank Mahency at center, and Scoot Cooledge on the left. Chase has been on the first line at intervals throughout the season...
...contrast to the yearly hue and cry of previous times, only three cases have been publicly tried since the law went into effect. In the case of Forever Amber, the courts decided in 1948 it was hardly obscene, but rather "sporific." It was sold. In 1950 James M. Cains Serenade and Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre were tried. Judging the books as total works of art, the courts decided the former was not obscene, but the latter was, and should not be sold...