Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient Persian playing card painted in bright colors on a thin block of wood, and a pack with Braille markings for use by the blind are among the interesting items in a collection of rare cards, which has been bequeathed to the University by the late Albert Thorndike '81 of Boston...
Ridder defended his work from the charge of "been-doggling" by stating that none of the projects come out of thin air. They are all, he said, carried out at the request and under the direction of some City, State, or Federal department, or of some non-profit institution such as university or museum. "We do not undertake silly projects, as this word, when applied to them, makes people believe...
...Arts in Philadelphia. There he began experimenting with that deep luminous color with which he was later to win his popular renown. Not until he went to Paris did he learn the trick from copyists of Flemish and Italian primitives. A Maxfield Parrish sky starts with a wash of thin plaster on a prepared board, followed by a coat of pure ultramarine blue. Successive layers of transparent blue glazes are put on with such finicky care that no brush strokes are ever visible...
...version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy antics and plot convolutions, and set to impudent, lighthearted music. Some of it is music worn thin by 1935's dancing slippers, but some good new ones have been added: Sailor Beware, Moonburn, My Heart...
...darling of a million ladies. They wanted cuteness in love, they found in for a long time in Charbe Parrell and Janet Gaynor. Then Charlie did a talking picture version of Libom in a role that called for the bluff and tender in a man. His voice was too thin and without nuance...