Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York World, ever tinged with yellow outside and intellectual blue-blood within, experienced the acute pain of a wolf trapped by the foot. It sought relief from its dilemma in an agonized editorial admitting that it was staggered by "a deep-rooted disorder in modern civilization." The public interest in the Brownings, it thought, was "no superficial blemish" but a phenomenon of vicarious sensual indulgence to which the nearest analogies were the Roman circus and the Spanish bullring. Yet "frank animalism" was lacking. "The combination between the courts and the tabloids," raged the World, "has produced a situation for which...
...entrance to the Brown Palace Hotel when a small newsboy approached and asked me to buy a paper. "Buy a Post, lady." "No, thank you." I answered. "Oh, buy one," he insisted, "why not?" "Well," I jokingly answered, "I'm afraid it's a bit too yellow to interest me." "Yellow! why lady, you're color blind. This paper's green...
Commercial Oakland Yellow Knight...
...Oakland Yellow...
...Post of the Yellow '90s was little flimsier than its Denver contemporaries, excepting the historic Rocky Mountain News. The latter's name alone was sufficient to carry it through the jamboree that followed Mr. Tammen's advent, and until 1913 it was in the able hands of Sen. Thomas M. Patterson. But all other Denver papers soon wilted. As soon as the Post began to pay, which was very soon, Gambler Bonfils appeared upon the scene to collaborate with Bartender Tammen in one of the most prodigious campaigns for circulation in the history of journalism. They imported from Publisher Hearst...