Word: indigo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London recently Professor Joseph Barcroft, world authority on chemical reactions of the blood, stepped out of a glass case. His face, arms, lips, ears and nose had turned blue. His torso was a barrel of barred indigo; his legs two uncertain aquamarine tendrils; even his nails were blue. He looked like a figure from a futuristic painting. But this blue man laughed, chatted and showed to admiring fellow-scientists the notes of observations he had made on his blood-reactions during the week he had spent in that glass case. His blueness was caused by the fact that the case...
...Metz' main objective would seem to be achieved if a synthetic opium having narcotic qualities were discovered. Such a formula could be controlled by the Government and would serve to destroy the vested poppy interests, as synthetic dyes replaced indigo growing...
...number of conservative journals or by any deluge of warning editorials. American veterans seem unanimous in their intention to exact this un-bankerlike concession from the next congress, as it forced the bonus from the last. The Legion may still be led on the still-hunt for indigo-colored witches; but in the matter of the payment of war, it knows its own mind, and woe be to the quaking financiers who oppose it. If the former soldiers embark on such a tempestuous career of political change, they will soon be labeled "socialistic" by their former allies, and the great...