Word: bluish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Métra confessed a romantic sympathy for the addicts - especially artists, writers and wealthy thrill-seekers - who bought their goods. "My curiosity is renewed each time I watch an opium smoker going through the rite," he once said. "It is like a priest venerating a divinity. The bluish smoke goes up like incense dedicated to some ethereal goddess. Opium smokers are delicate, delicious people...
...unromantic fact the bluegrass is no bluer than the Danube. It is an intense green most of the year. When the grass is in bloom, a faint bluish haze can be detected over the meadows but only with the aid of a strong imagination and a frosty julep...
...West Philadelphia came home to their families with an exciting story. The Virgin Mary, the girls said, had appeared to them in a vision while they were sitting on a bench in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. They added that the Virgin was wearing a white gown and a bluish veil, and "vanished'.' almost instantly. Rumor spread that she had promised to return on the last Sunday in October...
...light from the bridges of space almost certainly comes from stars, but because of the enormous distances, no individual stars have been picked out so far. In some parts of the bridges the light is reddish, in other parts bluish. This probably means that red or blue stars predominate in different sections...
...work he saw a machine about 75 ft. long, hovering 10 ft. above the ground, which looked as if it consisted of two large platters cupped together and ringed with small propellers. Squire said he got out of his car, walked to within 100 ft. of the saucer, saw bluish lights through portholes, and observed several figures moving inside the ship which looked like "human beings." As he walked toward it, he said, the machine rose straight up at great speed and disappeared. When Squire went on to the radio station and told his story, several colleagues went...