Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Staffordshire, is the village of Kings Bromley, where once a lady lived, and was wooed by one Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry. Forthwith, she rode through the streets of Coventry at noon on a white horse and she had nothing on at all but the long-yellow hair which hung down from her head. She was the Lady Godiva, and her ride delivered the people from a tax their lord had put on them and which history has told about. This month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale. For the last 100 years...
Chinese outnumber foreigners in China more than a thousand to one.* Yet in China the yellow men have hewn the white man's wood, drawn his water and emptied out his slops. Only recently have Chinese begun collectively to realize that they need do these chores only as long as they wish. The Chinese Nationalist movement has surged up from Canton across half China (TIME, Dec. 13); and last week the Chinaman's reluctance to go on emptying out slops indefinitely crystallized in a grave incident at Hankow,± "Chicago of China...
Twenty-five years ago this array was otherwise. Tuberculosis then was the chief cause of death. But doctors have taught defense against contaminated surroundings. People have learned to guard themselves. So typhoid, yellow and scarlet fevers, diphtheria, cholera and babies' bowel troubles are no longer pandemic and rarely epidemic in civilized countries. People live, on the average, ten years longer now than they...
...telegram offering him the Democratic nomination for President in 1928, which Mr. Dawes accepted provided the Republican nomination was added to it. A small silk hat, to which Mr. Dawes replied: "My head is no larger than it was when I came to the Senate." A yellow taxicab, accompanied by the reading of a parody on "Sheridan 20 Miles Away," which told how Mr. Dawes slept at the Hotel Willard while the Senate voted down the nomination of Charles B. Warren for Attorney General. A cartoon of Mr. Dawes, to be used in case...
...Then they cut* ?two curving slashes to form an ellipsis almost three feet long horizontally across his abdomen. This released a section of skin and fat that looked most like a slice of a huge pumpkin. It weighed (with other scoopings of fat) 31 pounds, and left a yellow gap across Mr. Phillips's belly, which the surgeons promptly closed by lifting flesh up off the thighs and nether parts to the steadier waist line. In three weeks he can be back at his gas station, can function with less discomfort...