Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis) does not assume the color of its surroundings. Its color changes, partly reflex and partly voluntary, are stimulated by temperature, illumination, emotion. In summer the chameleon can be given the run of a screened porch, but in winter it needs a cage with plenty of sunlight shining through glass netting or fine screen. Chameleons can drink only by lapping up drops of water sprinkled on plants; hence many die of thirst even with a pan of water in their cages...
...greenhouse which sunlight kept normally at a temperature of 85°, the plant had stood inert for five years in a box of earth four feet square. Three new leaves appeared but quickly withered and died. After this came a sprout which The Bronx scientists rightly took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant...
Lazily the Vagabond rolled out of bed and peered out his window into the sunlight and the courtyard of the almost deserted House. "By gosh, he yawned, "It's a good day. The three hundred and sixty-fifty, or something like it, and I see by the Crimson they've got another Commencement coming round. I guess I'll shave...
...Fire Over England" is definitely a picture worth seeing if only for the take of the photography. The Britishers can do more with a streak of sunlight and a dark room than any of Hollywood's best technicians...
...spent several years painting china for a Paris firm. A strong sense of how well clear colors looked on a light ground kept his later painting from dissolving into the atmospheric ultimates of the Impressionists, though he became as sensitive as any of them to the color effects of sunlight. When Painting china kept his color from dissolving. Renoir painted the summer gaiety of his friends he filled his canvas with flowing light and color, composed contented, decorous figures moving softly, if at all. Three of his best paintings, now at the Metropolitan, show how permanently he thus set down...