Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horses. Jewish and Polish property has been confiscated indiscriminately. Vast concentration camps have been set up and at least 300,000 young Poles, many of them former soldiers in the Polish Army, have been conscripted for labor in the Reich. Jews have been forced to wear identifying clothing (generally yellow arm bands), are largely confined to ghettos. Thousands of Jews, not only from former Polish provinces but also from Bohemia, Germany, Austria, have been dumped unceremoniously, with little food, clothing or money, into a small, not yet defined enclave around Lublin, southeast of Warsaw. Famine, disease and epidemic threatens...
...Ballou's book that she makes that plain. Some of Ella's first poems were "lovely in their lilt, overbrimming with an authentic freshness of emotion." She had great energy, great sincerity, great generosity, and on occasion great good sense. Even when she became a fixture of yellow journalism, her spontaneity remained untainted by cynicism. What was it that led her on into the self-deception that finally broke down in her last tragic years? ("I shall be forgotten," she said, "while more careful and conscientious artists live in the memory of the world...
Museum officials stated that although yellow topaz is most popular for gems, actually other colors are more common. The mineral is found in white, gray, green, blue, and red, as well as straw-yellow and wine-yellow...
...Dimple. Their elder son was Robert Alphonso Taft, born Sept. 8, 1889 in a Victorian house with colored-glass windows and scroll-trimmed porches in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills, on a bluff above the yellow Ohio River. Robert did not inherit the Taft dimple. His younger brother, Charles Phelps, got that, as well as his father's famous ability to chuckle along with people, make friends, have...
Died. One of the three pet canaries (all pure yellow without mark of any other color) of Pope Pius XII; in Vatican City. While the Pope lunches, as according to court etiquette he must alone, he used to let them out of their cage to fly around...