Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skyscraper has already become a plague that we may well range alongside our ancient city scourges of cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis and slums...
...Yellow-A good melodrama that started...
Before being Harvard men we are supposed to be American gentlemen. The sporting traditions of America are inexorable on one point, one cannot quit under defeat. It's yellow. Furthermore a show of reseuiment springing from defeat is underbred and yellow...
...their talk ran on the "spectacle" Conductor Leopold Stokpwski had provided. Hoping, he said, to enhance the beauty of his music, and free the ear from distraction by the eye, he had hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show-off bug. The kindest ones declared that by making himself a cynosure, Dr. Stokowski had spoiled his hoped-for effect...
London (Dorothy Gish). According to this picture, from Thomas Burke's Limehouse saga, all a girl needs is the right environment. Plump Dorothy Gish is on the verge of being sold to a Chinaman for three pounds sterling- dirt cheap at the price, too. Fleeing the yellow peril, Dorothy faints in front of a high class a la carte restaurant, is adopted by a sympathetic, wealthy family, marries a good-looking artist...