Word: colorize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...College Spectator contains an editorial upon the disputed magenta. It expresses the willingness of Union College to give up the color, but at the same time it insists that it is properly theirs by priority of adoption. In its anxiety to prove this priority, it declares that "in 1857, when colleges were choosing colors as a distinctive mark, Union chose magenta." A glance at the history of the time would have shown that the battle which gave its name to the color in question was not fought until June, 1859. If Union College chose the color two years earlier...
...averse to all duties that have to be performed regularly, I soon conceived a great prejudice against my mustache, and read all the medical books I could get hold of, to see if there was no antidote against it. I did not want to let it grow, because its color is a sort of magenta, and I had not then made up my mind to go to Harvard...
...rushed to my room, seized a match, and with true Herculean courage burned off my parasite completely. But alas! I soon found out that the real essence of a mustache and a hydra differs; for the former, to my chagrin, kept on growing as usual, and its color seemed to have gained in brilliancy from the fire-baptism...
...come off again. Once more I had to go through the painful transition-period, and a third engagement compelled me to shave it off again. I am now getting desperate. Shall not try it again, but I have sent for some extra-adhesive court-plaster, flesh color, which I am going to paste on my upper lip. Perhaps that will keep the mustache from growing. If it does not, my last hope is blasted, and all that remains is suicide...
...here we have certainly enough proof that Harvard wore in 1860 handkerchiefs of a color which the papers called red, - not an unnatural error at a time when magenta as the name of a color was little known beyond dry-goods' shops and the ladies. That these so-called red handkerchiefs were in truth of magenta, I have a pleasant reason for knowing, from having been made the object of some light feminine chaff about Harvard's taste in selecting so homely a color. In those days - as now indeed - we sometimes wore a straw hat with magenta ribbon...