Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas Day, 1876, the eldest son of Jinnah Poonja, a wealthy Karachi dealer in gum arabic and hides. The boy grew up in an atmosphere of wealth among a doting family. After going to school in Bombay and Karachi, young Jinnah, "a tall thin boy in a funny long yellow coat," as Poetess Sarojini Naidu described him, went to England. At the age of 16 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn to read law. Soon after Jinnah returned to India, his father lost his money. Three hard, jobless years followed, until briefs and money started coming...
...Gauguin tried to find new security in the hedged, rock-buttressed fields of Brittany, and succeeded only in learning how to compose his paintings better. In Aries, where he went to visit his friend Vincent van Gogh, he learned something about translating sunlight into arbitrary colors (chrome yellow, red-violet). Said he in his journal: "Though the public had no suspicion of it, two men were performing there a colossal work that was useful to them both." The work ended when Van Gogh went mad, chased Gauguin down the street with a razor, then went home and sliced...
...cattle had gobbled and grazed where the masters once trod. Last week the Augusta National Golf Club was open again. The dream golf course outside Augusta, Ga., built by and for Bobby Jones, had so much botanical beauty about that each hole had a flowery name (Flowering Peach, Yellow Jasmine, Spanish Dagger, Azalea). Bobby Jones, in semiretirement, played his one tournament a year there against masters and past masters only. This time 50 crack golfers were there-and Bobby, now 44, was back...
...Daily News threw down the gauntlet in the fall of 1894. The incumbent journalists affected to look down their noses at the upstarts, but were effectively put on their mettle by a keen rivalry that was not always bare-faced and above board. Unethical wire-tapping and signs of yellow journalism on the part of the News, however, showed up the following fall when the challengers were blighted by the failure of their subscription drive...
Detach my blue brain. Give me drinking water. Look out for the 'mountains. Think of arsenic. Change the yellow ink. Remember last year. Remember the heat. We spit in the air and the nightingales spit...