Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jazz hot was still in the wah-wah, funny-hat stage of the U.S. display bands of 1930. Maestros Alex Combelle and Andrea Leca were things of beauty in black ties and velvet jackets, but Combelle's gum-chewing guitarist wore a sweater with wide green and yellow horizontal stripes...
...Flight. "The Administration's 'yellow dog' injunction has reached the Supreme Court. . . . The Supreme Court is and . . . will ever be the protector of American liberties." He trembled on the verge of tears. "During its period of deliberation the Court [must] be free from public pressure superinduced by the hysteria and frenzy of an economic crisis...
...famed Ether Dome of Massachusetts General Hospital, a blond British electroencephalographer named William Grey Walter unveiled his invention-a yellow box, resembling a deep-freeze unit, full of vacuum tubes, condensers, switches, wires. Walter applied to a patient's head the electrodes of an electroencephalograph (a machine that traces the peaks and valleys of the brain waves, helps to diagnose epilepsy, brain tumors, etc.). Then he attached his analyzing machine to the electroencephalograph...
...editorial pages. The late Captain Joseph M. Patterson guided his comics (Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Terry, etc.) as cunningly as his anti-Roosevelt campaigns, built a monster circulation (now 2,400.000) for his New York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland, dipped into the year-long correspondence over it that passed between The Chief and his men, let the trade look...
Ginger, or Dolly, is forced by her Quaker father into a loveless marriage. When her husband, child and father are killed off in a yellow fever epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...