Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ainsworth, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, deaf to the bellowings of his diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...
...given the winner's glinting gold cup: "I am more than delighted for the horse rather than myself. He's such a gallant fellow and has such a beautiful temperament. . . ." Mrs. John Daniel Hertz, owner of Reigh Count, wife of Chicago's onetime Yellow Taximan, said: "Reigh Count ran a great race. He was beaten by a better horse. But oh, it has been well worth while bringing him to England...
...start at Old Orchard was June 13, a fair day with western winds all the way across the Atlantic. On the long, white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...
...Paris the Government, which has forbidden Frenchmen trying to fly across the ocean as a useless hazard, last week decided to "forgive" the Yellow Birdmen. But at Seville, Spain, two other Frenchmen, Captain Louis Coudouret and Louis Mallou had to abandon their attempt to fly from Seville to New York. Spanish officials had locked the plane in its hangar, to please the French government...
...weaving" which looks so well in the ring and keeps the other man guessing. Chiefly it is in the Schmeling right that the Schmeling might resides. It is swift, potent, and from it came all the early German knock outs which gave Schmeling fame and ideas. Black, red and yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German. He likes it to be known that whenever he returns to his Fatherland, as he did after knocking out Johnny Risko last winter, he immediately calls on his mother near Berlin...