Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hate pink, red and yellow; I think Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt were great Americans; I try to emulate the British in an American way. I like our flag as it is?I am a nationalist. I am referred to as a Naval expert, Naval authority, Naval critic, writer and lecturer? and other things that won't bear repeating. Enthusiasts claim I am the best posted man in the U. S. on national defense. I claim nothing and expect less; but whatever I represent, it is all American?which seems to arouse suspicion as well as curiosity...
...shining, fertile land, starred with endless constellations of grapefruit, melons and other juici- nesses?a lustrous feat of irrigation. Its crop is estimated at 4,500 carloads per year. Hidalgo homes are prosperous. Yancy Baker, onetime roughriding Hidalgo sheriff, now Democratic boss, lives in an enormous red and yellow showr place. Hidalgo people smile in the sun. Hidalgo ripens like its fruits. It has been irrigated financially through troughs of clever politics...
...Yellow...
...Chicago last fortnight, some 30 citizens at late hours mistook the city's new yellow police cars for Yellow Taxicabs, were ridden to police stations...
...Herbert Fleishhacker, San Francisco scion, mammoth Stanford footballer, was a marshal, strode about the course in a bright yellow...