Word: tinting
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Apparently impressed by Hagan's scraping and by an 1860 Cincinnati Daily Gazette description of the house as "a Quaker tint of tan," the advisory committee members after 90 minutes' deliberation ruled for "Quaker Brown." "Quaker Brown" was defined by one committeeman as "just about the shade of Mr. Hubbs's suit"-a light chocolate. Said Hagan: "If we get within three shades of the original color anyway, we'll be lucky...
...said, in what proved to be a thoroughly nonpolitical speech, "the shadows are deepening. I left Little Rock long, long years ago when life was simpler and gentler. The world has turned over many times since then, and those years of old have vanished, tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were...
...zanne drew clumsily, and comforted himself with the thought that "pure drawing is an abstraction ... as everything in nature has color . . . When the color is rich, the form is at its height." For clarity of line he substituted complexity of tint, building his pictures with painted dabs that reflected the unending richness and surprise of colors in nature...
...shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists of the kind of music that audiences whistle on their...
...nectarine his strong tint imbibes...