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N.Y. Eve. Express 19 Oct. 1/4–5: [Our reporter] found them [i.e. ‘the better sort of colored people’] disposed to ‘keep shady’ on the subject [i.e. John Brown’s insurrection], and it was hard to draw from them any opinion whatever on the matter at issue.at keep shady (v.) under shady, adj.