Word: indigo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their coal tar red wrecked the business of Levant farmers who had been raising madder plants for madder red. A similar misfortune befell the indigo plant cultivators of India. In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished. Chile, once boastful of its natural nitrate monopoly is humble. Synthetic rubber is a fact, although heretofore more expensive than Malaya and Sumatra natural rubber...
...orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet...
...ports, one's profits on butter-stamps, axes, ballads, candles, sermons, maple sugar, hats, horse liniment and soft soap, could be put into indigo, poplin, clocks, Bibles, Jews-harps, carriages, beads. One swapped for a horse and, if one's reputation permitted, peddled home again to dazzle the village with a city wardrobe and watch-chain...
...understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones, or indigo ones, or even some navy-blue ones." Lovers are close for a moment, and the episode calls to mind not merely Beatrice and Dante but Saint Paul and God! In short, The Green Forest is an enchanting spot badly messed up by artificial planting...
Over the waste stretches of the march lands journey the Ten Thousand Men of Harvard with their goal a white line across a green field far away guarded the rumor goes by an indigo Cerebus. This afternoon before the sun drift into the concrete of the Bowl and sufficient thrills have entered sufficient college hearts the yearly puzzle will unravel: does or does not John Harvard win his big games...