Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew out of the distance. A door clanged metallically and an indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz...
...General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, a few years younger than Senator Dill, more charming than the usual caricature of a suffragette, one of the leaders of the feminist invasion of Washington through the mud of 1913; once a Chevrolet mechanic who was rewarded with the famed "yellow suffrage car" in which she toured New York State; a chicken farmer; a collector of book plates; a licensed attorney; the manager of the $5,000,000 estate left to her and her two brothers...
...stamped yellow fever out of the Panama Canal Zone...
...Gloomy. ("Gloomy Gus" wore a long yellow coat. Hands in pockets. Never smile...
Among those who are familiar with the history of the construction of the Panama Canal, credit for the eradication of yellow fever from the Isthmus is given principally to the late General W. C. Gorgas. It detracts nothing from the honor due General Goethals as a great engineer, a great organizer and a great executive, to give General Gorgas the honor due him, and in the name of the thousands of his fellow countrymen who love and respect his memory, I ask that you will...