Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friars in their white cassocks, Trapist and Capuchin monks in brown, Benedictines and Jesuits in black?then the resplendent, gold-draped bishops and archbishops. Homage and glory mount as the procession nears its end. Fifteen cardinals are coming, vanguard to the Host behind. Papal guards in scarlet, blue and yellow uniforms follow. Then comes, under a canopy of gold and surrounded by censor-bearing acolytes, the Blessed Sacrament. It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance. No less a personage may carry it than His Eminence, Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, the legate of the Pope, the proxy...
Boats of another sort-needle-sharp bodies with eight yellow legs apiece-measured speed, three of the outlandish creatures appearing on a river in Connecticut, two on a lake in New Jersey...
...Pickering organized the W. R. Pickering Lumber Co. for $60,000. They prospered, took in as subsidiaries the Standard Lumber Co. and the Pickering Land and Timber Co., established 51 retail yards in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, developed timber holdings of some 350,000,000 feet of southern yellow pine and 3,500,000,000 feet of California white and sugar pine, reached production of 1,000,000 feet of finished lumber a day and 400,000 doors a year. So they decided to consolidate all, establish headquarters at Kansas City...
Thompson and Clark, who had come up with Warner, left ahead of the others, travelling on houseback to Lanehow where they came down the Yellow river on a small skin raft to the railhead and a hence by rail to Peking. Starr, Stimson and Warner brought up Lie rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored...
...adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There is bloodletting for the sake of seeing an ivory floor incarnadined. The palace is yellow; the guards wear scarlet; Santa Barbarian males are tall, red-golden of hue and often go nearly naked. There are some 400 pages of highly involved events, followed by much sacking and a fierce conflagration, and the hero sails away having accomplished nothing more than the reader's unmitigated excitement. Author...