Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exhaled Alcohol. In Cincinnati Dr. Emil Bogen persuaded persons arrested for intoxication to blow up football bladders. Such exhaled gasses he made to pass through a solution of potassium bichromate, which changed from yellow to green in proportion to the amount of alcohol on the individual's breath. Extra Physical Work up to ten times normal is possible for a human in fair health. Neither the heart nor lungs limited the amount of work the body could do, in the bicycle-riding experiments of Dr. L. J. Henderson of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon...
Died. Gaston Leroux, famed writer of detective stories; at Nice, France. The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera were cinematized. The Phantom featured Lon Chaney...
...Yellow men made no mass attack on whites in China last week, but here and there yellow fingers pulled triggers and grasped bludgeons wherewith to drub white flesh...
...West Indies, visited New Orleans and Texas, and which he was now refueling for the next hop, to San Diego and the Pacific, lay in still water surrounded by a Joseph's coat of many colors-spilled oil. From a rowboat full of boys nearby fluttered a yellow butterfly, a lighted match. Poof! The Joseph's coat burst into flaming flags...
John North Willys owns the U. S. rights to the use of the Knight, sleeve-valve motor. Wary of competition, he has restricted its use in this country to his Willys-Knight and Stearns-Knight motor cars and General Motors Yellow Cab.* Last week appeared a fourth, the Falcon-Knight, six-cylinder car made at Elyria, Ohio, to sell at about...