Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...
...lectures have shown with their usual degree of luster, he has exhausted the store of his accomplishments. The full blossomed lot of pleasure has not been his during this last stretch of Saturdays. His coup detat, the carefully laid scheme to fly to Michigan, having been uncovered by the Yellow Press, he can reckon little for the credit side of his ledger...
...Jesus, painted yellow and green, looked down past his canvas feet last week into the appraising eyes of Sir Joseph Duveen...
...booed and hooted under the Boess windows until driven away by industrious Schupos, then came back to boo and hoot some more. Most persistent was a stalwart young Red who strode up and down before the house clad with eccentric symbolism in an amorphous, shaggy fur coat dyed flaming yellow...
...there are innumerable social functions which may be more aptly described as brawls. For the games the fraternity houses decorate their buildings in every way imaginable: today there is a contest between the fraternities to see which can put up the gayest decorations. There are to be slices of yellow and blue; there are to be slices of brilliant crimson: and there are to be huge "M's" and "H's" amidst the galaxy of color. The whole town of Ann Arbor is celebrating the coming of the Crimson...