Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...
Since Matisse first conceived the chapel (TIME, Jan. 3), the ailing but happy old man has altered his plans for it again & again. The design for its eight narrow stained-glass windows of half-abstract leaves and cactuses done in blue, yellow and green was worked out by pinning colored scraps to long rolls of brown wrapping paper tacked to the walls of his hotel suite at Nice. The interior design was also the work of months; as now planned, its white marble floor and black-line Matisse murals drawn on white tiles will glow with colored light from...
...pulled the telegram from behind the beermug on the mantlepiece, and tore off the end of the yellow envelope. He pushed a shirt and a pair of dirty socks off the easy chair, then sat down to read...
Each of the onlookers in the grandstand got yellow "peace buttons" to wear in their lapels. Each signed individual cards promising to "repent and pray" for the "Chinese, Filipinos and South Sea Islanders whose houses our troops had pillaged and burned, whose properties they looted, whose families they insulted and killed." This humility was echoed over a loud speaker at a baseball game between a badly outclassed team from MacArthur's headquarters and a team from the Japanese Ministry of Trade. "Please," the announcer urged the audience in Japanese, "applaud more loudly for the Americans...
...audience Toad inhabits his ancestral home, Toad Hall. Instead of acting with the dignity befitting a young man in such circumstances, Toad is a madcap adventurer, a faddist whose fancies often become manias of the most compulsive (and hilarious) sort. After cavorting about the countryside in a canary-yellow cart drawn by a horse named Cyril, Toad winds up in the Tower of London...