Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabethan England there was a recognized underworld profession called "ruffling" or "roaring," whose practitioners could be hired to turn the air blue against an enemy...
Only at the ends does Coach Little have real cause for the worries he professes, but here Old Man Graduation really took his toll when he removed Bill Swiacki and Bruce Genrke from the Light Blue-roster. Adam Rakowski is the only experienced end returning, but Lion rooters are waiting patiently for Little to wave the same magic wand he used in beating Army last year and come up with someone else to pull down Rossides' heaves...
...real object of the kind of language the News believes in, said the editorial, is to say things so the public can understand them at a glance, "without having to go grubbing into a dictionary to find out what in the blue blazes you are trying...
...blue Appalachians faint at the day rise...
Last week, 90 days later, Kaleidoscope's voluptuous maiden issue (372 high-styled pages plus a sensuous blue-green cover) appeared. Overnight the monthly became the talk of the trade. Aimed at fashion executives instead of their customers, it was a "multiple magazine" with 15 departments (for cosmetics, coats, lingerie, etc.), each with its own editorial and advertising sections...