Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Please darken the leggin's in front of Pheidippides' stomach. From a distance this gives him the appearance of potgut. Don't you think him a shade pink for a warrior? And WHAT is that black face behind Miltiades? It is only because we are very enthusiastic that we would dare offer a suggestion. We see it from a distance as it will mostly be seen. It will be a fine mural. PLEASE get on P's potgut though...
...Boston and Manhattan and were approaching the Mill Neck, L. I. station about four miles from the Morgan estate at Glen Cove. Mr. Morgan was looking out the window when his train rolled to a halt. Gawpers rushed up to peer in at him. Mr. Morgan pulled down the shade...
Last week's job on the tower took a new turn; various parts of the dome were painted with different shades of blue. Now authorities, from some distant vantage point, may compare the fastness of each hue. Some day they'll find the shade, insists the Maintenance Department...
...tender vine-leaves, weave a shade...
...potatoes, must be taken with a little salt. Readers will be considerably baffled to know how this U. S. investigator, who speaks only English and German, managed to evoke such dangerous confidences from the most illiterate classes in Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia through interpreters. Author Spivak is a shade too ready to forecast the collapse of tyrannies, to overestimate the potency of the rebellious spirit. His book is valuable as a document of a kind that rarely emerges from the censored murk of dictatorship...