Word: violet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From red blood and green leaves he proceeded to find out why cornflowers are blue. The color of most flowers and fruits, he eventually demonstrated, depends upon a primary dye group, the anthocyanins. The free dye is violet-colored. Different conditions of alkalinity and acidity make flowers blue...
...BOOK OF TALBOT-Violet Clifton-Harcourt, Brace...
Talbot met his wife in PerUj where she was living with her father, the British Minister. It was love at third sight; they went back to England, properly chaperoned, to get married. Rawboned Violet was no less characterful than Talbot, and even on this first trip they had stormy times. But she never tried to domesticate him. Soon after marriage they went off to Burma and the Malay Archipelago to find new types of orchid. When the Great War came, Talbot, too old for active service, got a coast guard job cruising off Ireland; they bought a house and settled...
Married. Governor John Garland Pollard of Virginia, 62; and Violet Elizabeth McDougall, 44, his executive secretary; in Winnipeg...
...private penthouse, and then to the dormitory regime has finally become accepted as a public enterprise at the Weld Boat House, the Cambridge Bear Mountain. It is a great pleasure to see nude humanity sporting on the planks, drinking in the beauties of nature and life-restoring violet-rays. Perhaps, if we are patient, this custom, instead of remaining a bathing and boating performance, will become a real cult, boasting a single purpose and a single underlying philosophy. A few stray scholarships for Neufahrwasser Students might even catalyze the process...