Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal Academy, Berlin, began his career there in the days when the Kaiser perniciously interfered in the work of every studio. Fuchs at length obtained permission from the imperial megalomaniac to execute a silver equestrian statuette; his reputation was made. He went to Rome, was patronized by yellow Italian noblemen with peaked eyes and thin noses; Queen Margherita came to see his work; John Singer Sargent encouraged him to remove to London. There he sculped everyone of consequence. His book bristles with passages like the following...
...made it a curiosity long ago. Charlemagne was said to have had a tablecloth of it; Eskimos used it for lamp-wicks. Mined from veins in the earth, white or gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled, divided by "fiberizers," graded, woven...
Having successfully-or apparently so -swept through the country, the Drive-It-Yourself movement has at length invaded New York City also. The movement has resulted from an inspiration in the fertile brain of John Hertz, taxicab king and controller of the Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, May 5, 1924; July 7). It has been incorporated as "The Yellow Drive - It-Yourself" System...
...Company, which is a subsidiary of the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Corporation, has about 150 stations through the country already; it is now operating some 600 of its cars in Chicago as well as about 100 each in Cleveland, Louisville, St. Louis...
...forbade the function to proceed unless he conducted it. The haggard wedding guests, frenzied at the threat of another delay, conducted Cantor Gartenhaus to the basement, there throttled him until the couple were united. On leaving the synagog, Cantor Gartenhaus was overtaken, severely pummeled, deprived by violence of six yellow teeth. At 9 p. m., a number of wedding guests were arrested...