Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jackets displaced, one single-breasted and one double-breasted, are, as I have heard the word used amongst the quorums of Eighth Avenue & 34th Street, a bit noisy; but to a people who are used to seeing the same juxtapositions of line and color in kilts, the adjustment to this aberration from Edwardian severity shouldn't be a difficult...
...inform the population: The Moscow Clothing Trust sells all-readymade women's dresses of silk, wool and cotton." A woman's stocking ad cries up the virtues of "a new fiber called Kapron," presumably a Soviet nylon. "They mold the leg nicely, wash easily, keep shape and color...
Winding up a coast-to-coast lecture tour with her husband, Authoress Mrs. Krishna Hutheesing, younger sister of India's Prime Minister Nehru, said in Manhattan that the kumkum, the spot of color worn in the center of the forehead by Indian women, is not a caste mark. "It's a sign that one is feeling gay or festive-we put it on as part of our make...
...this occasion, Godfrey's usually good timing was off-base as well as off-color. Just the day before, speaking at the University of Oklahoma, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had said: "When a comedian gets so big that his network can no longer handle him. then we have a case of the tail wagging the dog. The boy who used to express himself with chalk on a wall is now provided with a television screen . . . This type of comedian is stilt peddling livery stable humor...
Fossil Crinoids. Even sharp-eyed naturalists would find it hard to trace the descent of the slick magazine with a four-color cover from the plain, dull scientists' guide to the museum collections, which featured such heady articles as "A Remarkable Slab of Fossil Crinoids." Though Natural History still proudly numbers many eminent scientists among its readers, 95% of the copies now go to laymen. Stories and pictures are chosen with an eye to popular appeal as well as professional soundness. Sample eye-catching layout: Anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro's comparison of the dimensions of "Norma" (the average...