Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar public idols, the little blonde murderesses. After she has killed her man, Roxie is frightened for a few minutes. But what with the excitement of telling the reporters how she came to do it, the delights of seeing her name right up in big black letters on yellow or pink paper, the merry diversion of raising her skirt and eyebrows at the jury so that they will acquit her, she quite naturally forgets that she has committed a crime...
Died. Charles W. Gray, 52, president of the famed Yellow Cab Co.; thrown from his horse while riding, in Chicago...
...divided from the Indian Territory. More Indians were sent there - Sacs, Foxes, lowas, Pottawatomies. Also Cheyennes and Arapahoes. Then more Cherokees. Then some Kickapoos. In 1907, the Indian Territory was lumped with Oklahoma Territory and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma, famed since for oil wells, yellow pine, Ku Klux Klan, cal ow politics. Of the seven Governors the state has had, six have been threatened with impeachment by bands of political freebooters who from time to time dominate Oklahoma. †Many sat or lay on the floor...
...volume bound in yellow paper was the source of august discord. Already 100,000 copies have been sold, for the volume is the new Alternative Prayer Book of the Church of England (TIME, Feb. 21), recently approved by the Church Assembly, and submitted to the House of Lords last week. So important loomed this revised manual of prayer, that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled in greater numbers than at any time since the World War. The four benches assigned to bishops towered with stiff regalia. Then up rose, to put the motion, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall...
Strapping Christian undergraduates, some carrying rubber blackjacks, loitered in truculent groups, early one morning last week, before the lavish baroque facade of the University at Budapest. When Jewish students began to arrive, swinging off bright yellow trams in the Egyetem-ter (University Square), their Christian classmates menaced them with commands to "Go home!", hurled ribald taunts & insults...