Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kiely of New York City informed the All-America Anti-Imperialist League last week that letters embellished (on the back) with certain little yellow stickers, were barred from the U. S. mails; that he was returning such letters to their senders or burying them at the dead-letter office...
Meanwhile the Beatissimus Pater, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pius XI, continues his pretensions to be the sovereign of a State by permitting the daily unfurling of the yellow and white flag of the Roman Church Temporal - a banner displayed even in the U. S., where few Protestants trouble to distinguish it from the crossed keys on a white field which is the standard of the Roman Church Spiritual. That "Rome" has indeed many of the attributes to a State was shown again, last week, when the Holy See concluded a diplomatic pact with that flourishing State Temporal, Czechoslovakia. (See below...
...Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings of the imprisoned first-mate...
...millenniums ago, some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome Chinese efforts, both before and since, have availed less in relieving droughts than have their partially successful flood control methods (success being measured by the proud statement of Chinese scholars that the great Yellow River has completely altered its course only three times in the last millennium...
...Jannings in The Last Command (TIME, Jan. 30), does well indeed as the somewhat helpless heroine. Gary Cooper is lanky and effective as the able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt of shining yellow snow...