Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sometimes they were self-consciously obscure, like Anton Refregier's timely Invasion, in which a trio of Hieronymus Bosch-like monsters seem not to know what to do with a Soviet flag...
Camouflage in the last war meant whirls, blotches, stripes and curlycues with which "experts" made common objects look like a futurist's bad dream. Stripes and blotches were supposed to do for ships and tanks what stripes and blotches are supposed to do for giraffes and tigers. Camouflage artists called the effect "disruptive coloration." At sea it was meant not to conceal the ship but to spoil U-boats' calculations of its speed and course, make torpedoes miss their mark. Opponents of dazzle long insisted that camouflage should conceal as well as confuse, and since World...
What U. S. ships, would look like if war came is still a deep defense secret. But outspoken army camoufleurs turn thumbs down on dazzle. Their problem, they feel, is harder than outsmarting a periscope running ten to twelve feet above heaving wave-levels. They have to conceal parked tanks, trucks, grounded planes, big guns from modern aerial camera-eyes which can even pick out the curl of withered camouflage leaves from 3,000 feet...
...clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look like big chocolate bars...
...shortly before he wrote his song was tempted to wish the eagle-screaming Baltimoreans would indeed be conquered. Descendant Key-Smith firmly believes that anyone can sing his ancestor's anthem. Last July, when Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel said no singer could be at home on a range like that, Lieut. Colonel Key-Smith snorted: "Any real tenor who says he can't sing The Star-Spangled Banner is a fool...