Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight will end as the managers agreed. But in the trenches, where a man's head may be blown off without contract, haircombs are counted superficial. Besides, there is no counter jab against a 16-inch shell. So the hero, once a cocky pugilist of the alleyways, turns yellow. But later he braces up, rushes a machine-gun nest, falls, comes to in the arms of his Red Cross nurse sweetheart. A delicate operation has been performed upon his shattered arm. Will he be able to use the limb? The audience watches in agonized suspense. Then the orchestra blares...
Leonard Wood, born in 1860 in Winchester, N. H., entered the U. S. Army as a surgeon, carved his niche in history as an administrator. When Military Governor of Cuba he led the fight to stamp out yellow fever, put a turbulent island in order, ready for independence in 1902. When Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army he became the "Father of Plattsburg, " the creator of civilian military training camps, a staunch friend of "preparedness...
When William Hearst came to Manhattan where, with money borrowed from his mother,* he acquired another jaundiced journal. He was to cure it of financial jaundice and infect it with another ocherous bug. It was the yellow wrappings of the "funnies" in this newspaper from which grew the household epithet "yellow journalism...
...region around Point Sur is already crowded with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father...
...yellow dog barking...