Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High on a New Jersey hilltop, overlooking colonial steeples and the Delaware River, music fills the clear air six nights a week. It rises from a huge, floodlit, green and yellow tent, home of Lambertville's Music Circus. Under the big top (where there is room for 1,500) the attractions are Broadway shows (with good second-string casts) such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Call Me Madam, and such vintage operettas as Sweethearts, New Moon and Die Fledermaus. Last week, the Music Circus put on view a frothy revival of Orpheus in the Underworld, by Jacques Offenbach...
Your . . . version of the rioting incidents in Calcutta will, no doubt, help the Indian Communists . . . May I suggest you . . . print . . . unbiased news ... or you may be branded as a yellow-bellied imperialist agent...
...cool, breezeless morning in the greenhill isles of Ithaca, Zante and Cephalonia, off the western shores of Greece. Villagers and vacationers from the mainland slept or stirred, or busied themselves quietly about their homes. It was 5:30 a.m. Forty seconds later, the isles lay beneath a yellow shroud of brickdust in the wake of a major earthquake...
...tired of La Boca's all-pervading drabness, hired a crew of house painters to brighten the Boquenses' homes. Quinquela and his men started to paint the town red-and also blue, green, yellow and orange. When La Boca merrily proclaimed itself an independent republic some years ago, Quinquela took the title of its "Rearest Admiral." He still occasionally wears a blue admiral's uniform with gold screws for buttons, signifying his allegiance to the Order of the Screw which he founded (current membership: 150). Explains Quinquela: "I long ago discovered that anyone worth a damn, anyone...
...could blame most of his defeats on car failure. He took every big European race at least once-the Grand Prix, Le Mans, the Mille Miglia. Superstitious, he liked always to have a hunchback friend nearby when he raced, for good luck. He always wore the same yellow sweater, blue pants and tricolored scarf. Italians said of Nuvolari, as they had long before said of their spellbinding violinist, Paganini. that he had "a pact with the devil." This belief was strongly supported by Nuvolari's chief European rival, Achille Varzi. In the 1930 Mille Miglia, Varzi was coasting along...