Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Author Hughes made venomous reply: To those who objected that Artist Reiss had pictured colored schoolteachers in regrettably dark tints he replied: "Should all teachers resemble the high-yellow ladies dominating the Washington school system?" Of the upper-crust Negroes as a class he observed: "Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives...
...Yellow Magic. To back up these warlike words, Chang Tso-lin was hastening last week the advance southward of an army commanded by his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. As his troop trains rumbled into the province of Honan, little papers by thousands were found strewn along the tracks. When Chang's soldiers read them, they discovered with terror that a mighty brotherhood of magicians, the Red Lances, had imprinted the papers with curses. "Whoso enters Honan to fight her defenders," read the curse, "shall suffer the withdrawal of the protection of his ancestors. Beware...
...cheery: "Hello, General, you're looking fine. I see you have your glasses on." Out of the loudspeaker, General Carty's bass voice boomed: "Does it-ah-does it flatter me?" President Gifford carefully viewed the changing smiling features of the General on the glass in the yellow frame before him. "Yes," he said, "I think it's an improvement...
Whenever a discussion arises on the subject of yellow journalism, the Boston Transcript is cited as a clear bright light shining in a dark journalistic world made up of pink extras, tabloids, red headlines, and misleading leads. The Transcript, also, is the classic example among newspapers of the good old New England conservatism, the "safe" newspaper equally to be trusted when declaring that there is no summer playground that can hold a candle to New England or when leading the churchman afield...
...received the pregnant reply: ' 'Cos one does the same thing every day'; and at the age of 23 Mary was still resenting repetition. Only more so, because life had become more busily full of dreary tidyings and cleanlinesses, of washings up and washings down, of moments that smelt of yellow soap, and tea leaves and paraffin...