“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
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1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
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"Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue."
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1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Transgression of Andrew Vane, Henry Holt and Company, page 140: