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...memoirs basking in the glory of the great. It does, to be sure, tell much about the glamorous literary London of the nineties. It gives personal reminiscences of such diverse figures as Aubrey Beardsley and H. G. Wells. It includes many amusing anecdotes about the "Headly Rod" and the "Yaller Bok", about Oscar Wilde, George Moore, and about Israel Zangwill. But all this is incidental, as it pertains to the life of Grant Richards up to his twenty-third year. And this, his early life, he recounts with modesty, with delight and understanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/9/1933 | See Source »

...petticoat was yaller an' 'er little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Mandalay | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...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 »

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