Word: indigo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mood Indigo. In Sydney, Australia, a jury awarded Musician Frederick Benedict Mclntosh $22,500 damages after he complained that he had given up his radio work, following an auto accident, because he had lost his "cheerfulness...
Motion Seconded. In Toledo, to back up his request for an additional reptile keeper, Zoo Director Philip C. Skeldon turned loose a wriggling 7-ft. indigo snake at a city-council meeting, quickly...
...before the real battle, 400,000 Haitian slaves had risen against their 40,000 French masters and beaten them in fighting so bloody that the population dropped by 150,000. The first rebel leader, an ex-slave himself, was Toussaint Louverture. To regain the colony, rich in sugar and indigo, Napoleon sent 70 ships and 40,000 men against Toussaint, and captured him. Toussaint died in prison in France. It fell to a successor, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the crafty "Tiger," to destroy the French...
Manhattan's old Aeolian Hall, but the Duke stuck to his own style and rapidly built up a following. By 1935, most of the U.S. was humming such Ellington compositions as Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady and Solitude...
Divorced. By Christine Weston, 47, novelist (Indigo, The World Is a Bridge) : Robert Weston, 60, retired forester; after 28 years of marriage, no children; in Ellsworth...