Word: splash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those who are industriously interested in the stage have long known the facile genius of Robert Milton. He has been termed the most talented director of our theatre. This season he incorporated himself and plunged into independent production with The Far Cry. The splash attracted notables, professional and social, to the opening performance. They retired at eleven o'clock with their hopes vaguely dampened...
...sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt holding many silver knives and supporting a wicked-looking scimitar...
...Marr, American-born. Said Professor von Marr: "These ultra-Modernists are mentally afflicted. They are sick in their heads, and the more I see of their work, the more I become convinced of the fact. Most of them are incapable of learning the simple mechanics of drawing, so they splash their canvases with every color of the spectrum and call it inspiration." The many, many people who subscribe to the sanctity of tradition-in-Art have rented a studio for von Marr so that he may continue to teach them. The six professors, as one man, declared that "it makes...
...cannot be said this year that we can fell the Elis "by the foolish way they row (splash! splash!)" but neither can it be said of the Crimson...
...second "his cares are now all ended." The day was wet and forbidding. Great crowds of hundreds of thousands of people found their way to Epsom Downs. But pretty frocks and dashing sport clothes, so important to Derby Days, were all wrapped up in raincoats, and the only splash of color was that supplied by the gypsies. As the field of 27 faced the barrier, the good-natured crowd "downed umbrellas" in order that all might see the getaway. "They're off!" shouted thousands of voices, but one by one the horses returned behind the barrier; Jockey Donoghue...