Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away in pursefuls. "More like some prince than our son," said the mother in despair; but the father had not even objected when Jack rode off to war, preposterously martial, on a gelded roan. Early in the campaign Jack got a fever; he came home before the rest, yellow and thinner, with huge eyes. He could not sleep well now; Pietro Bernardone would hear him tossing on his bed (he lay on the top floor) and sometimes crying aloud, in a voice harsh with dream. Yes, Pietro Bernardone had been worried about his son. But now he was angry...
...Yellow is a tantalizing play. After shining with golden radiance through two scenes of masterful tragedy, it suddenly pales into the forced flicker of melodrama. Its unevenness is so extreme that the poor scenes seem doubly deficient, the better ones elusive. However, judged merely as melodrama, Yellow stands well above all its current competitors. It is the first play of Margaret Vernon, who reveals, certainly, potential brilliance...
...tell it, in his own yellow manuscript: "Mr. Marshall of New Jersey, my carpenter. . . . was working on a new sawpit at Coloma, in the mountains, about 18 hours' journey from the fort. . . . It was a rainy afternoon. . . . Suddenly Mr. Marshall burst into the room, he was soaking wet. . . . a piece of cotton from his pocket ... a lump of yellowish metal. . . . Then I read an article in the Encyclopedia Americana. I told Marshall then that his metal was pure gold in the virgin state. . . ." But the news...
Those who in their cursory glance at the late days of the Nineteenth Century see only the faded features of fin de siecle gentlemen with yellow roses in conspicuous button holes, men who can only live in history as characters in a travesty, called "The Mauve Decade", forget that more vigorous people were living and working at that time. Dartmouth College this week mourns the death of such a person, vigorous and vital...
...Willys, who learned the merits of the motor from gossip during a transatlantic trip, bought the rights for the light car field. No U. S. passenger cars but the Stearns-Knight and Willys-Knight may yet use this motor, although the Federal Truck has it and, strangely, the Yellow Cab, which is now owned by General Motors, great maker and marketer of poppet-valve motor cars...