Word: magenta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishingly, since he is four years married, a virgin. He does not mind his asexual life; indeed, he is so Victorian that he can barely imagine any other. Alas, his unfulfilled young wife Amy is not resigned to her condition. She indulges in "fantasies of liquid the color of magenta, a pomegranate redness, viscous to the touch, so that one has to lick it dry." Poor Edward is clearly in for trouble...
...McGill University Football Club will meet the Harvard Club on Jarvis Field, Wednesday and Thursday, May 14 and 15. The game probably will be called at three o'clock. Admission 50 cents. The proceeds will be devoted to the entertainment of our visitors from Montreal." Notice in the Magenta...
...publicize all this, the Athletic Department will be running small ads in the Boston newspapers. But these will certainly be nothing like the notices run in the Magenta...
James A. Mackay. 296 pages. Macmillan. $17.50. The rich vagaries of stamp collecting go on and on as prices rise and the hobby cum investment spreads. In 1970, $280,000 was paid for a One-Cent Black on Magenta of British Guiana 1856: "a square inch of paper, with dogeared corners, a smudgy post mark and a badly rubbed surface." Author Mackay is the former keeper of stamps at the British Museum. He has produced a remarkably documented thumbnail history of some 3,000 stamps dating from 1840 to the present, with slightly enlarged color illustrations...
...tell you everything (and we'll try), you'll stop reading us. And if you've read this far, you'll remember the motto of The Magenta: "I won't philosophize. I will be read."Three Crimson editors watch their teammates in the making of another classic 23-2 touch-football victory...