Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning lights, apparently, fail to attract University Police. Discriminating in their choice of colors, these gentlemen are fascinated by another shade: orange. In fact, they seem so enamored by this duller hue that they amuse themselves during the dark of night and early morn distributing samples to cars parked on local streets. Never before have the streets of Cambridge been so enthusiastically decorated...
...wilderness, where for decades he was a fugitive from the vengeance of Charles II. With his steeple hat, his flowing white beard, his Bible and his sword, William Goffe became a New England legend (Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of him as The Gray Champion}. Years after his death, the shade of William Goffe reportedly appeared at Bunker Hill, and, later, before John Brown in the engine house at Harper's Ferry...
...Labor Departments took a hard look at current construction and decided that they had been too pessimistic. Raising its sights another notch, the Government estimated construction outlays this year will reach $41.8 billion, a full 11% above the record spending of 1954. House building will be just a shade under the all-time 1950 record; office construction, stores, churches, schools, public works and highway construction will soar past all previous peaks...
...Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That meant he had to create about 100 individual designs and fit about 600 costumes for the show. He also had to keep in mind that he was working for both color and black and white (if he uses the wrong shade, the heroine's face might turn green in certain lights...
...real comic conviction into her voice when she decides it must be classical music "because there's no vocal." Tom Ewell brings the expertise of long familiarity to his part of the agonized husband, but Director Wilder has let several of Ewell's monologues go on a shade too long. In minor roles, Robert Strauss and Donald MacBride also help to slow down the farce pace, while Oscar Homolka, as the psychiatrist, loses most of his best lines in transition from Broadway and delivers the remainder in too impenetrable an accent. Itch should have emerged on the screen...