Word: tinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collier's readers last week were given a pair of rosy-hued glasses through which to goggle at the progress and percentages of Boston's "Our Jim" Curley. But the tint wasn't applied heavily enough for one paragraph of Curleyana: that color should have been CRIMSON...
...Grey Mare. In Groton, N.Y., a farmer walked into a newspaper office, asked for a bottle of printer's ink to tint the eyebrows of his old horse...
...insincere Blot was a taunting the Jester, a new Jester without the tradition worship of the old masters. Light dawned in Ibis intellect: unwitting Lampy had bestowed the Eli sky-blue tint to creaking portals that shrieked their protest in hues of yellow. The bird groaned and returned to frustrated vigil...
...first small batch of year-end earnings reports trickled in last week. At a quick glance, 1943 seemed to have been a rosy year for U.S. business, perhaps better than 1942. And even on longer second glance, much of the rosy tint held up under a grey-colored fact. The fact: many a corporation, slashed by renegotiation, squeezed by taxes, soaring costs and OPA ceilings, has reached its profit peak or is already over the hump and on the way down. But the rosy color held up generally because, in spite of everything, most companies were still making big money...
...diplomatic threads that Francis Spellman was helping to weave, many an observer saw the tint of the Vatican's age-old wisdom. The threads were certainly many, and these might be among them...