Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...illustration of the practical working of this system, four students were clad in female attire. "One wore a fashionable poke bonnet and a scarlet dress with puffed sleeves, and smoked a very long and strong cigar; another was attired in modest white, wore a coquettish flat straw hat with blue ribbons, and talked in a deep bass voice; the third was clothed in the sober garb of a middle-aged matron, but had refused to sacrifice his mustache, and the last represented a prim and dignified spinster, but was betrayed by the vigor and pathos of his profanity when...
Keene's colt, Blue Grass, was winner of the Ascot biennial stakes yesterday...
...Clipper's account of the recent inter-collegiate sports states that among the colors displayed by the lady spectators "the pale blue and white of Columbia and the bright crimson of Harvard were largely in the ascendant...
...Fortress Monroe the naval review took place at 10 o'clock yesterday. Four steam launches and twenty-two barges came ashore in line, landed 500 blue jackets, 100 marines and four pieces of ordinance, under Commander Bridgman of the Kearsarge...
...general hue of blue...