Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that such discreditable rubbish is a distinct reflection upon the good taste of your subscribers as well as yourself and is an act of disloyalty which it is our duty to resent. The article seems to me to be the quality of the stuff which is characteristic of a yellow journal but entirely out of character for your magazine and its editors...
Heard in Manhattan at the Plaza Hotel ten-year-old Oscar Throngren recite a poem, "The Bells," composed by the Prince's brother. Little Oscar was dressed in the costume of Varmland, consisting of yellow knickerbockers, white stockings, red jacket, red and black cap. The Prince knew others of the children gathered there from a visit they had paid him in Sweden: "How you've grown!" said...
...yellow menace, especially to denote Japan, is often on the lips of Caucasian alarmists. The external formidability of Japan and the obvious straights of her population, so pent within narrow islands, have given her, in the words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings...
...istic westerner seldom sees. They show Japan, far from single-minded and bent on onset against the west, in the throes of difficult and diverse evolution. Which all goes to show that the popular mind, if not the scholarly mind also, is ignorant of just where the yellow peril lies...
...statistics won first a mitre, then the Hat. A pistol bullet fired near him by ecstatic Mile, de Morfontaine puts him in mind of how the faith of his young days has vanished into labyrinthine dialectic. He dies of old age at sea, a benignant saint returning to his yellow disciples...