Word: shade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago finance has its delicacies of shade no less fine than those of Manhattan's stock market. Example: last week's "corn & hog parity" got alarmingly out of line. Dollar a bushel corn equals $10 per cwt. hogs or something is wrong in the stock yards. Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus...
...Lawrence (TIME, April 11)-engage in active warfare with the Turks or indulge in dynamiting their railway trains. Her important war role came later, in helping to tidy up the British victories and install the Government of Irak at Bagdad. Very womanly at heart and just a shade Victorian, she thus describes the arrival at Bagdad of her chief, the first High Commissioner to Irak, Sir Percy...
...paintings were neither. They are difficult paintings to write about. When Georgia O'Keeffe paints flowers, she does not paint fifty flowers stuffed into a dish. On most of her canvases there appeared one gigantic bloom, its huge feathery petals furled into some astonishing pattern of color and shade and line. A bee, busy with a paint brush, might so have reproduced the soft, enormous caves in which his pasturage is found. One of the.insects out of Henri Fabre, some thoughtful, sensitive caterpillar who had read Freud, might have so pictured the green and perpendicular avenues of his morning...
...famed paintings. These were not prints, photographs, copies, but facsimiles, produced according to a new and secret formula, to be known as Belvedere Facsimiles. Made in Vienna by one Ulf Seidl, painter, aided by scientific associates, their purpose was to reproduce, not merely the drawing, the light and shade, the color, the texture of the original painting, but to reproduce perfectly and precisely all these details, so that the appearance of the reproduction should be identical with the appearance of the original. In this purpose the Belvedere facsimiles succeeded to an amazing degree. From the walls of the small gallery...
...acting was all purple and gold, particularly as the play proceeded, when it should have been cold grey. Yet to many people her uncanny magnetism passed for sincerity. With a sound experienced company around her the whole performance hinted again and again that the play was just a shade too good for them...