Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellow Kids...
...Because he used yellow paper for some of his editions of the New York World, and because his paper, avoiding contemporary stodginess, sought for 'human interest.'" (TIME, May 27.) I think you are mistaken in this! I have been a constant reader of the New York World for some 30 years and have no recollection of its editions ever having been printed on yellow paper. The origin of the opprobious "yellow journalism" came about through a "comic" drawn by R. F. Outcault, called "The Yellow Kid." This appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst...
Louis B. PARSONS New York City. Reader Parsons is correct. The Outcault strip was called "Hogan's Alley." It was continued in the World, after Outcault went to Hearst, by George B. Tuks. Then there were two "Yellow Kids." two yellow journals. - ED. B rownsville-Mexico City
Other Rockefeller Foundation 1928 expenditures went as usual to promote the development of medical knowledge by aiding schools of medicine, nursing and hygiene in various parts of the world (including 18 medical schools in 14 countries) and to promote public health by helping governments fight certain diseases (yellow fever in Brazil and West Africa, hookworm in 21 countries, malaria in the U. S. and elsewhere...
...bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties which lie about Bury Hill and to the south far out at sea, folk noted the birthday fire of the Hereditary Earl Marshal and Chief Butler of England...