Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yellow-jacketed book, In the Reign of Rothstein, appeared. Rothstein-Mathematician of Crime was published serially in a New York daily. Throughout the autumnal mayoralty campaign, candidates aspiring to Mayor Walker's desk filled the newspapers with accusations that Tammany Hall was afraid to prosecute the Rothstein case because Tammany men were too intimately connected with Rothstein's world...
Silver trumpets fanfared. The royal procession moved across St. Peter's Square. Like medieval statues, a platoon of the famed Swiss Guards stood at attention in the scarlet, green and yellow uniforms designed for them by Michael Angelo. Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace. Under the Bernini colonnade, the Palatine Guards, more "efficient section of the Pope's army, snapped modern rifles to the present...
...noted in Their Majesties' party the fascinating brown beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno Pontificio...
...warm and the ground muddy, but the wagons went fast. A good husker never looks at his wagon. He trains his team to move the way he husks, stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when you find a red ear you have a right to give your best girl a kiss...
...brilliance of Grandson Maurice centres in his clothes, which are as the sun in splendor. At the recent wedding of his English cousin Anthony he startled smartchart editors by appearing in mustard yellow trousers and a bright blue tailcoat with brass buttons. Baron Maurice's collection of pajamas is the envy of many, and his beach robes are one of the established sights of Deauville. He has been divorced, "for mental cruelty" his reputatation with women is peculiar. He was cited as co-respondent (together with Augustus John, the British painter) in the famed Gough divorce case in London...