Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sponsoring tax measures which would benefit only the wealthy. Rejoined Millikin: "Dear Senator, if that did not come out of your mouth. I would call it sheer claptrap-and it is still claptrap, even though it comes out of your mouth." From his safe distance, Millikin waved a long yellow pencil at Douglas...
...first new cars placed in operation in more than a generation. Most of the city's 403 remaining streetcars are almost 50 years old. Many adult passengers have been riding the same cars all their lives, just as their fathers had before them. The ancient cars, a faded yellow and top-heavy, are so slow that passengers call them tortugas (tortoises...
...answered both objections. One was a clean-cut, red-and-black London bus-stop marker that is functionally efficient and esthetically pleasing. So is an eye-catching, striped pointer showing the way to the Northland shopping center in Detroit. Among other examples of good sign design: the simply lettered yellow-and-red Shell Oil Co. emblem and the handsome, red-and-gold store-front label of F. W. Woolworth, which has been in use since 1885. The Woolworth sign is one of the favorites of Mildred Constantine, the museum official who organized the show. Said she: "Just look at those...
...Yellow Fog. In The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a dozen new stories "based on unsolved cases [from] the original . . . stories," Adrian Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur's youngest son) and John Dickson Carr have tried their hands at rebuilding this magic world. Like a pair of Frank Lloyd Wrights constructing a row of thatched cottages, they have studied the authentic models down to the last detail. Holmes himself appears on the glossy jacket, dressed in his deerstalker and plaid cloak. Within, a yellow fog haunts as ever the windows of 221-B Baker Street, hansom cabs clop beneath...
...pouring of so much beer on the Memorial Hall floor, that was the only part of the evening's entertainment that I believe could be objected to. However, sensationalism is a mispractice dear to the heart of every immature newspaperman, and "It Happens Every Spring" is in the worst yellow journalistic traditions, though its author is obviously quite pleased with the exalted position from which he condescends to gaze at humanity. Let us consider the facts of the matter. The accident to to which the editorial alludes could well have happened at any other time and should not be connected...