Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in Shanghai, China, a distinguished mingling of white and yellow folk took place at the opening of the greyhound racetrack at Luna Park. Lean Wazir, owned by A. W. Olsen and Y. F. Hung, won the Yangtszepoo Stakes. Col. R. W. Dockrill's Staff Captain took the Luna Park Opening Cup. Misses Margot and Tita Stephen's Merry Sinner took the Luna Park Hurdle Cup. But the dogs of Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon won no races until the second day's Hongkew Hurdles...
Friends of Feng-and he has many, white, yellow-hailed him as renouncing personal glory and proving the sincerity of his professed devotion to a great ideal: Nationalism or the Unification of China under a People's Government. That ideal in concrete form is at present the new Nationalist Government at Nanking. To it Marshal Feng sometime since pledged the voluntary support and subordination of himself and his immense, completely independent army. In the name of the Nationalist Government Peking and Tientsin were conquered...
...effect the enemies of Feng-and they are many, white, yellow,-"But really, you know, Feng has conquered those same cities before, in so many other names. . . . Feng's a traitor, a Judas! Of course the Missionaries like him. He's the only Chinese War Lord they ever converted. But watch out for Feng! He gets his arms from Moscow, got 27,000,000 cartridges. He'll ditch the Nationalists yet and keep Peking for himself...
...Facing the problem of Sunday worship, President Coolidge had to make a choice. He might go four miles to the Presbyterian Church at Nebagamon, where expectant elders were viewing new and expensive decorations. Or, he might attend the tiny Congregational Church at the Brule crossroads, painted cream-yellow an'd freshly trimmed at the staggering cost (for a congregation of 30) of $800. If he went to Brule, who should have the honor of preaching? Should gray-haired, blind John Taylor, a mere layman, be allowed to fill the pulpit as usual? Or should Brule call upon...
Married. Zona Gale, 53, famed playwright (Miss Lulu Belt, 1920), novelist (Preface to a Life, 1926) and short story-writer (Yellow Gentians and Blue, 1927); to William L. Breese, 63, wealthy hose manufacturer; at Portage, Wis., her birthplace...