Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity ... so I'll add to his pleasure by prolonging the controversy. . . . By strange coincidence, when Viskniskki held sway over the efficiency of the New York Journal and the New York American in 1930, paper towels and white soap were eliminated from the wash rooms and newsprint and yellow soap substituted. I wouldn't under any circumstance accuse Mr. Viskniskki of this brilliant piece of economy. I am merely pointing out that possibly the mere appearance of Mr. Viskniskki at any newspaper plant creates a panic in the paper towel department. G. L. CRAIK...
...Slack-chinned, dull-eyed Crackers from the back country thronged the narrow streets, along with vacationers in shorts and halters, blue-red-yellow slacks, astrologers, hackies, pimps, and the solid, trading, homeliving folk of the city...
...through the capital. On New Year's Eve, China's stocky, genteel, old-style Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. Rung gave a party there for the city's cosmopolite society-foreign diplomats, newspapermen, missionaries, native officials. The guests grew mellow on mild-tasting, brain-sieging Yellow Wine...
...little red and white village of Charlottesville a mile away. Down below in the valleys the woods have been cleared, the red earth turned and turned again with the plow, and planted with seed, so that the valley floor is flecked with patches of fertile green and yellow. All around are the gentle foothills of the Blue Ridge, criss-crossed with sparkling streams, and molded down into a leisurely alternation of heights and lowlands. It was here that Thomas Jefferson brought his bride, to live in a one-room cabin while he built his great house which he called Monticello...
...accurately) from an encyclopedia, but Harsanyi's 572-page novel provides for leisured readers a better-than-hack picture of Italy's late Renaissance cities, courts and manners. As a novelist Harsanyi has at least one artistic moment that Flaubert would have appreciated: As Galileo kisses the yellow hand of his mistress's dead father he can only think how like it is to hers...