Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iolanthe. For those who know Gilbert and Sullivan no more need be said. For those who don't George Gershwin should be quoted. When asked what he thought of the "Pirates", during the intermission on the opening night all he could say was, "Gee". Gilbert and Sullivan, like Yellow Taxi drivers, are "always reliable...
Their rubbers creaked a chorus. The stars were very clear. Above the Yard there was none so clear as that yellow one to the north--or was that Thwait's imagination? "I have," he suddenly remembered, "I have to make a call tonight...
Despatches from Nevada related the discovery, in mountainy canyons near Winnemucca, of extensive deposits of opals, those iridescent gems, glowing blue, green, yellow, pink and deep red, for which the world has previously depended chiefly upon mines in Hungary, Mexico, Honduras, Australia. Geologists reported that the stones had been formed after a petrified forest was prehistorically inundated by volcanic ash and lava. Made bold by successful recent raids on Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most...
...inspired grasshopper." It is a poor metaphor. Few grasshoppers prefer candles to the sun. Very thin, very long-handed, long-nosed, always a flower in his buttonhole, he infuriated William Morris by his somewhat ambiguous drawings for an Arthurian poem. Other people liked him better; his drawings in the Yellow Book caused critical thunderstorms. Esthetes strove to imitate in prose and verse the Beardsley gift for wistful evilness. His friends denied that he was obscene; in that denial they took from him his character and his curse. There could be nothing dirtier than certain prints of his which...
Whatever their true nature they are a beautiful fish, yellow and black, and seemed to me more substantial food than the ordinary trout. They vary in length; our guide said he had seen one 28 inches long, but our party had to be satisfied with six or seven inches, although they saw many big ones. At our last camp on lower Rock Creek the guide caught his limit (twenty fish) and gave them to us to take back to Pasadena. He cleaned them, hung them up for the night to dry, packed them in canvas, and then inside a roll...