Word: magenta
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...print: the only known example of a one-penny postage stamp, black on magenta, printed by hand in 1856 by the stamp-starved inhabitants of British Guiana. Seller: the widow of Plush Manufacturer Arthur M. Hind of Utica, N. Y., whose husband, after World War I, is said to have bought it at auction in Paris for $32,500. Buyer: an anonymous private collector...
...made 19 trips to Europe, encumbered always with a troupe of male and female dancers, singers, musicians. Mysore cooks went everywhere with him to prepare lavish, condimented Indian dishes. The Yuvaraja'?, parties at London's Dorchester House hotel were famous. A passionate gadgeteer, Prince Wadiyar, clad in magenta turban and sky-blue tweed frock coat, would stand all night under arc lights and before a microphone, alternately crooning into it U. S. jazz hits, chatting through it with his guests, and barking orders at his servants, who carried small loudspeakers or wore earphones...
...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...