Word: tint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provinces are the Near East. Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. He speaks many languages fluently, some like a native. (In Albania his glibness brought him under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid of history. . . ." Other hooks: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, Dreamy Rivers (TIME...
...Author's local color is her native tint. Her maternal great-grandfather went to southern Georgia as a ''New Light'' preacher, her grandfather built with his own hands the isolated little country church where all her family are buried. Georgia-born (1903) and bred, Authoress Miller got her schooling at Waycross High School, where she took more than an academic interest in English and in her English teacher (W. D. Miller), whom she married two months after graduation. Now she lives in Baxley, Ga., where her husband teaches school. She finds time to write while...
...appeared to be about the size of our Wichita hangar [102 ft. by 270 ft.] and shaped like a ball. It left a deep red trail with a bluish tint, which hung in the sky until obliterated by daylight...
Spring plowing was getting under way in Georgia's fat black fields last week. Peepers were already loud in the "branches" (brooks) and the doves and quail had started pairing. Along the red clay roads trundled wagonloads of grey cottonseed to market. A faint green was beginning to tint the woods. The season was getting along, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his white cottage among the pines at Warm Springs, had not yet announced his Cabinet or perfected his "New Deal...
...line on a black ground. To make black show against white, the boxwood must be cut away on either side of the line, a delicate operation. Wood-engravers' tools are a series of little chisels and gouges known for the marks they make as scorper, square scorper, graver, tint tool, multiple tool (eschewed by severe wood cutters 'as giving a pretty effect too easily) and spitzsticker. An amateur of wood engravings should be able to tell from the marks they leave just which tool was used on every part of his print...