Word: indigo
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...often pasted on the back of cut-down playing cards, but in their small compass Hilliard had captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest (see cut) was a 10⅛-inch painting of the buccaneering 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their...
...Avenue, with bandana tablecloths, fake foliage and a reputation as a speakeasy. But Harvard and Princeton boys soon found the way there and crowded around the bandstand on weekends. They muttered sagely to each other "terrific mood, terrific content" as the Duke played such originals as The Mooche, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy. The New Orleans jazz boys were then spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language. He had not yet heard of Stravinsky, and he had quit studying harmony after his first lesson...
Nowadays, when the head stripper of the show reaches the climax of her performance, the management turns a protecting dark blue light on the proceedings, wrapping the star in an indigo robe thick enough to confuse even the sharpest eyes; and one can never tell whether he is seeing the real thing or not. The humor is uninhibited only to the extent that it would be exceedingly embarrassing to take a girl to hear it, even for laughs. At intervals a motley band of women of all sizes and shapes troops back and forth across the stage, each with...
...average 17th Century Jack Tar (e.g., he spoke four languages fluently). Like most of his contemporaries, he wrote phonetically-"yeuneuerseti" for university, "yeumer" (humor), "bin" (been), "westinges" (West Indies). Born in Kent, in 1633, he became coxswain and gunner aboard merchantmen whose loads ranged from Newfoundland cod to indigo, currants and muscadine wine. Between voyages: "[I] took large liberty in drinking and sporting as the manner of seamen generally...
Christine Weston was born & bred in what the Literary Guild-which has made her new novel its September selection-calls "Gandhi's country" (India), where her French father was an indigo planter. In 1923 she married an American, came to live in Warren G. Harding's country. Twenty years after, Indigo (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943), her fourth novel, brought Author Weston a degree of prestige and profit...