Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yellow Jack (by Sidney Howard in collaboration with Paul de Kruif; produced by the American Repertory Theatre) is still, after 13 years, a vivid stage document. It tells the story of the search for the cause of yellow fever and, without too much sentimentality, portrays the heroism of men' who gambled their lives in the quest...
...Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in a Booby Hatch) is about two yellow-fanged old hags who are miffed at a new inmate because she is young and pretty. While one harridan pinions the newcomer's wrists, the other wrenches back her head and plunges long scissors into her eye. "La! La!" she cries happily as gore spatters in all directions. When the hags have a difference of opinion, one shoves her pal against a red-hot stove...
Laid in Cuba in 1900, Yellow Jack shows a frustrated and not yet famous Walter Reed, and the doctors under him, deciding rather desperately to test out Cuban Dr. Carlos Finlay's long-held theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. The test is hazardous, for since only human beings get yellow fever, only human beings can serve as guinea pigs.* The first tests, moreover, are bungled; but eventually, after an Army doctor has died, a soldier has been inoculated by press-gang methods, and four others have become guinea pigs voluntarily, experiment turns into proof...
Fame people reported that the niches reserved for Revolutionary Philosopher Thomas Paine and Yellow Fever Fighter Walter Reed-both elected to the Hall in 1945-still lacked busts (nobody has yet come through with funds to provide them...
...line "between good-grey press and yellow or purple press," said Markel, divides editors who stress important news from those who stress interesting news. Once in 1922, he recalled, he had asked the late Publisher Adolph S. Ochs: "How does it happen that the Times, which publishes only the news that's fit to print, carries columns upon columns of the Hall-Mills [lovers' lane murder] story...