Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your story of Mr. John F. Stevens' recent trip to the Isthmus of Panama (TIME, Feb. 28, p. 10), you say that General Geo. W. Goethals "conquered the greatest foe of his predecessors, yellow fever...
...particular book or magazine will be attacked, but the entire field will be parodied. The Fairy Tales of the Grimm brothers and those of Hans Christian Anderson form the background, but besides these the Red, Blue, Green and Yellow Fairy books, Mother Goose, Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, and the children's poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Whitcomb Riley Eugene Field and W. C. Gilbert will be burlesqued...
...slow, yellow gas engulfed London, suddenly, one morning last week. It was not poisonous but it made eyes to smart and throats to tickle. Grime laden, it soiled. Dense, it blotted out objects within arm's reach. Translucent, it diffused broad daylight into a dull, enveloping bluish glow. As it must to London, "the worst fog in half a century" had come...
...known box; this distinguished musician, that famed diplomat?they kept the audience craning necks, peering into programs, discussing personalities. The most brilliant gathering of the, year, had assembled to hear the first U. S. opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd impresario. He will tickle U. S. vanity by presenting native opera, if they insist upon it. This is the twelfth such production. None of its predecessors amounted to much." Before...
...yellow curtains folded. A moment of silence, then storms of applause and 37 curtain calls. No one fled for his limousine. This ovation was sincere. Critics hailed a triumph: The Henchman, they said was more than the greatest U. S. opera; it took rank with the great music of the world. Though Composer Taylor showed traces of Wagnerian influence, his music held enough ingenuous wealth to need no comparison, to point to far greater possibilities of creation...