Word: magenta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once a law-abider, always a law abider. Harvard men have stood by the new parietal rule, and they will stand by Connecticut's law. They are urged by God, by country, and by Connecticut, to leave anything indicative of red, crimson, scarlet, vermillion, magenta, or carmine at home. At the state line men will be able to purchase black and white signs saying, "Fight, Team, Fight...
...brought with him ancient memories, long since forgotten by successive Classes or Editors. His chief pride was the first issue of the Magenta, ancestor of the Crimson. On the evening of January 25, 1873, ten members of the Class of 1874 assembled in the rooms of Mr. Cirrk. These were Eugene Nelson Aston, Samuel Belcher Clarke. Thomas Corlies, Frank Child Faulkner, George it win Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson...
...Brown Eyes are Eve's (Joan Bennett), who has been transformed from a quiet type into a slangy manicurist whose assured deportment and reconditioned make-up make her virtually indistinguishable from Carole Lombard. The small blue eyes which Na ture gave her have been photographed with magenta lighting so as to look big and brown. The picture is paced in a fashion that makes the sensational crook melo dramas of last year seem as sedate as Whistler's Mother. Its talk is spoken so fast and cut so close that quoters will have a hard time remembering...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
Handkerchiefs, a crew race with Yale, and a hot sun combined 61 years ago in laughing about the change of the University color from magenta to crimson. To keep perspiration off their faces members of the varsity crew were handkerchiefs wound about the head and these happened to be crimson. The innovation struck the student's fancy with the eventual result that the color of the University was officially changed. The Magenta, the semi-monthly publication, became the Crimson...