Word: magenta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with magenta, plum, Tommy Atkins red, petunia, rich blues and deep greens or turn innocently romantic in swirls of Edwardian pinks and blues. Frills and furbelows on skirts pop out in ruffled peplums and billowy bustles. ¶ Fripperies to complete the rich elegance of "Edwardian and earlier" include cameo brooches, heavy rhinestone...
...cynically, some Art critics have called plumbing the only immortal U. S. art-form, the country's sole contribution to world culture. U. S. plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. A magenta watercloset built all in one piece of porcelain stood alone on a green throne, simpler than Prajadhipok's. A seven-foot bathtub surnamed the Bourbon Luxury was flooded with soft lighting, framed in banks of peonies, on a marble stage. The National Association of Master Plumbers' annual exposition...
...sister to have died of heart trouble, Dr. Magrath noted the peculiar color of his ear. Although the room was free from odor, turning down the bed-clothes brought forth the smell of illuminating gas. An examination of the blood showed it to be of the bright magenta color peculiar to victims of gas asphyxia. The ordinary color of blood encountered in autopsies is a grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into the hall where the sister was waiting, and turning to her suddenly, shouted, "Who turned off the gas?" Taken off her guard, the girl finally admitted removing...
...custom of laying down board walks annually during the winter season is half a century old. It was instituted by the Corporation in 1880 largely because of student agitation end of the editorial policies of the CRIMSON and its progenitor, the Magenta, whose columns for seven years warmly espoused the movement for plank walks. The first issue of the Magenta, appearing on January 24, 1873, contained the following editorial: "We wish the College would lay plank walks in the yard: As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal...
...Unrepresented at the New York International Flower Show was John Davison Rockefeller Sr. But in a flower show sponsored by the Halifax Garden Club of Daytona Beach, Fla., near his Ormond Beach winter home, he last week won two blue ribbons for a large basket of deep magenta petunias and a pot of Easter lilies, clapped his withered hands...