Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his hands to know them." There is his constant desire for the unattainable tranquility that intellectual and physical isolation partly affords. Walking in the quiet hill-wood he meets a salamander, and this abrupt intrusion shatters the entity of stillness, and suddenly there is a alarming multiplication of yellow and black terrors. There is his constant desire for the compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility of bigness. "Salzburg lay changed beneath them the castle was as tiny as a chessman the tossing shapes of the Baroque Kollibien Kirche...
What would U. S. editors say if President Calvin Coolidge ordered for the White House servants a set of magnificent liveries: canary-yellow coats, wine-colored breeches, white silk stockings, patent leather pumps...
Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline...
...comment (TIME, March 21, p. 13) regarding the Panama Canal Zone as "one of the chief headquarters" of the international traffic in "white slaves." Control of this traffic at the Canal Zone comes under the Quarantine Officers who are just as diligent against "white slavers" as they are against yellow fever and bubonic plague, and the records at Cristobal show that last year (I quote from a note from the Quarantine Officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne) there were deported "26 modistes or modistas and 18 of the kind of men who accompany such women." The profession of dressmaker, "modiste...
...Pinedo, Italian air ace, to whom Mr. Coolidge expressed his regrets over the recent burning of Signer de Pinedo's plane (TIME, April 18); J. Ramsay Macdonald, onetime British premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Ishbel, (see p. 11).¶ On the presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads...