Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parched Grahamstown, on the eastern coast of Cape Province, the royal family arrived just as the first showers in four months began to fall. "The King is the bringer of rain!" shouted 9,000 grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight...
According to the shoe-shine boy at Felix' Shoe-Shine Spa, tips come in all sizes, "from the large to the small, small economy size." Meanwhile, mecca for the penurious continues to be the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria, where a bright yellow sign, with big red letters, declares, "No Tipping, Please...
...Charles Sedgwick as the Archbishop of Reins and Thayer David as the Inquisitor went beyond the realms of skill in the two roles which more than any other express the religious-philosophical outlook of Shaw in the play. Mendy Weisgal was perfect as the pathetic Dauphin, from his neglected yellow robes to the fifteenth century hair style he had summoned for the occasion. H. M. Temple set the pace for the rest of the cast with a superbly stylish performance as de Baudricourt in the opening scene, and William A. West and Joe Everingham deserve mention for their smooth renditions...
...trapezoidal dining room with its glittering candlebra and bleak yellow walls doesn't supply as much inward contentment as what comes off the serving line. When all is said and done, Leverett probably stands first gastronomically among the five Houses connected with the mass-production line of the University kitchen...
...Manhattan, Dancer Astaire, now 47, teamed up with an old friend, Charles Casanave, to open a plush new dancing studio (deep red carpets, blue-green walls, yellow and red covered furniture). There, at $70 for a ten-hour course, Astaire hopes to teach all comers to dance something like Astaire...