return of "colored"

[Laurence Horn]

There are actually 6 different g-hits to be found for "a vision of ebony loveliness", but the only one to be found in Google Books is considerably more recent, and rather more vernacular, than the description of Miss Tandy below.

LH



On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> ...
> PS: If you can trust Google Books (and in this case you can because I
> checked with the NY Times) Jessica Tandy was the original "vision of
> alabaster loveliness" as Abigail Masham in the play "Anne of England,"
> which opened on Broadway on October 7, 1941.
>
> JL
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> The little girl reminds of the turn of phrase popularized by Early
>> Cuyler, of Dougal County, Georgia:
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>> "A vision of alabaster loveliness."
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