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Word: yaller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES. (Of course the other crimes such as-burglary-arson-murder-THEFT-etc., etc. are nothing at all in the eyes of the ultras-as compared to the possession of a "pint tickler of yaller corn" "that would make a jack rabbit spit in a bulldog's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

When making long journeys from one camp location to another, he lived in a tent, he traveled in a "buck board" drawn by two horses, while a span of "yaller" mules supplied the motivity for covered wagon, and "cullud" cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...best short story, to Dr. Rudolph Fisher of Washington, D. C., for High Yaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Prizes | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Klan, being unwilling to attack a woman, is driving chiefly against her husband. The Klan papers call him "buzzard", "yaller dog", "old skunk", "he-viper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Me For Ma | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

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