Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Mayor brought two ripe yellow bananas back with him to the town hall, and a few lucky kids did some dockside sampling. Consensus: "Better than pears." One twelve-year-old's joyful munching was recorded on the spot...
...yellow jog came creeping down The bridges, till the houses' walls Seemed changed to shadows, and St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town. -Oscar Wilde...
Read with interest your article on a U.S. press reporter stating that the Japs "had made us look like monkeys" [TIME, Aug. 27]. As members of the occupation forces on Kyushu we have seen the monkeys being made and the coddling and too easy handling of the little yellow apes...
Bummy moved to Madison Square Garden, fought Lou Ambers, Tony Can-zoneri, Henry Armstrong and the top welterweights of the late '30s, made $60,000 in four years. As befitted his new social position, he began wearing banana-yellow sports shirts and stylish checkered slacks. But he still trained at Charlie Beecher's smoke-filled poolroom in East New York...
...tobacco smoke curled up through the hard glare of the Klieg lights, staining the air blue. The 100 newspapermen, jammed shoulder-to-shoulder at press tables that boxed the witnesses in on three sides, like a symphony orchestra around its conductor, scribbled amid a litter of handouts, maps, yellow copy paper, overflowing ashtrays. Under the tables their shifting feet smudged their piled-up coats and hats. Off to one side were 18 radio reporters sitting along the wall; behind them were the newsreel boys, their cameras whirring monotonously...