Word: yaller
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...policies, and the women who love them. In the 1939 "Moon Over Harlem," directed by B-movie cult fave Edgar G. Ulmer and written by his wife Shirley, a brassy woman at a wedding reception announces, "When I get married again, I'm gonna marry me a real high-yaller. He may beat me, but I know my good home-cookin' will bring him around...
...Yaller bird, let my corn alone...
...Yaller bird, let my crawps alone...
With two yoke of oxen, a big yaller dawg...
...nest) of a U.S. Navy vessel at twilight one day last week, standing watch on his first trip to sea. Heavy seas frosted his binoculars, rendered them useless. But he kept to the watch. Said he: "I seen this object with my naked eye. It looked like a yaller box, maybe three miles off." The bridge could not see it, pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors, one of them already prostrate from exhaustion, were picked up. Commended by the Third Naval District...