Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also the same items in blue, yellow & green enamel ? some in solid color, some in white with patterns...
...satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts!" exclaimed the principal rhetorically, seeking to excite manliness in the pupil. Ralph, shamed, said that he would fight. He and another school boy put on great, softly-padded boxing gloves; Principal Rainey stood by with a stopwatch to mark...
...large and small panels, some very interesting, but which to a large extent are loosely painted and "up in the air." In "Sanks Road, Maushon" we see a daring attempt with red which is very attractive but the cool blue of the water color in the sky and the yellow toned trees mingle triumphantly in the spectator's eye. The picture hangs together while the predilection for red is an added attraction...
...other hand in the "Fountain of Trevi" we find tones that contrast and mingle and as a result create an atmospheric sensation. The cooler tones are employed on the figures of a fountain while the warm yellow and orange of the palazzo in the background are contrasted to the former with successful result...
...Significance of these and the other nineteen pieces that the small book encloses are in some way explained by the quotations that furnish its title: from Noah Webster, " '. . .the yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact...