Word: tint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have an easy time. Aaron falls half in love with a girl he meets at the Missionary Home, Selene Lanark, "all vigor, speed, tautness . . . She was on the tall side, slender, rather tanned: olive-brown of skin with a wonderful smoothness to it ... Her eyes had the tint of black glass . . ." Presently he discovers that Selene is a half-breed, that her father is a rich trader living near Aaron's Mission of Bois des Morts in Minnesota. When he gets there, Aaron finds how much there is to do before he can get to his preaching...
Among the chief delights "of the ride, he found, are the things one sees on the way: "The tint and character of a leaf, the dreamy, purple shades of mountains, the exquisite lacery of winter branches, the dim, pale silhouettes of far horizons. And I had lived for over 40 years without ever noticing any of them except in a general way, as one might look at a crowd and say, 'What a lot of people...
...Irish (20th Century-Fox) burdens a pleasant little comedy with a forbiddingly sticky title. The movie is just about as sham as most shamrock tales, but, with one exception, it is presented with taste and ingenuity. The exception: sequences taking place in Ireland are smeared with a green tint that displays the world as through a shower curtain...
Success Through Failure. He plowed his field the hard way. Wedgwood kept 10,000 of the trial pieces that preceded his perfection of jasper ware (a hard white semiporcelain which took a fine blue tint). His eventual success made possible the mass production of quality pottery. His experiments took pottery out of the luxury class-and made him a millionaire...
Last week Dayton had a shower of green rain. It stained a few citizens' clothes and left a greenish tint on some white-painted houses. The press reported that local scientists were mystified...