Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suspicious of his motives, the Congress voted not to turn Franklin Roosevelt loose in world power politics. The scene one night last week upstairs in the Oval Room at the White House, with the President of the United States making one last, futile plea to a steadfast coalition of Senators grouped against his brand of Neutrality marked the nadir of collapse. In rapid succession other collapses followed...
...wages high enough to give the "humble classes" access to culture. All over Spain there were prayers and parades, masses and mass meetings, chants and cheers for Francisco Franco; all over Spain there were uniforms-the khaki of the regular Army, red berets and blue shirts of the Falangists; white blouses and blue skirts of the Auxilio Social. Uniforms on an individualistic people, children marching and chanting in unison the Falangist slogan "Produce! Produce! Produce!" Madrid workmen, traditional Leftists, parading with hammers, wrenches, shovels, trowels, to show their respective trades-all this said that the old Spain was dead, dead...
Died. John Louis Comiskey, 53, rich, elephantine owner of the Chicago White Sox; of pneumonia; in Eagle River...
...kissed the face upturned and white...
...Black," wrote Redon, "is the most important color; nothing can prostitute it." Although he liked to call them his noirs, Redon lithographs run the gamut of neutral tones from rich black to glaring white, rely upon contrasts for their emotional effect. Typical of Redon's noirs were the Chicago show's mythical Pegasus, The Winged One, a Child's Head with Flowers, and unearthly chimeras ranging all the way from The Head of the Infinite Suspended in a Dim, Precarious Light to a shocking confrontation that anyone who has ever had a hangover could understand...