Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queen Paras (as she may now call herself) stepped upon the shore, friendly but shy. She wore a red and yellow dress and over it a cloak of dark blue silk. Her hair was tied in braids; she wore no bangles. One hundred gypsies met her at the pier; one hundred gypsies escorted her, with shouts and cymbals, to be crowned a queen in Manhattan...
...Rowell emphasizes the vividity with which the menace of yellow inundation strikes the inhabitants of our west coast. There are no way stations between them and China. Systematic immigration or even loosely administered restriction would inevitably turn California Asiatic. Westerners demand absolute protection from such a possibility before they will even think of the larger aspects of the matter. And this protection is conceded them. Further than this, there is nothing specific which can be done to define the relations of the white man to the yellow. The progress of comity awaits a superstructure of fellowship to be built with...
...tomb of Tin Hinan, semi-legendary queen and goddess of the white race of Tuaregs (Berbers). In the crumbling frame of a carved wooden couch lay the six-foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold alloyed with copper and some other metal, perhaps antimony, which would link the artifacts definitely with Punic work done at Carthage, on the Sahara's north edge, before its conquest...
...would-be is a has-been now, sport," he replied. "Dis yere," he said, indicating a meek yellow woman by his side, "is another...
...votes of the College, Faculty, Law School, and Medical School will be kept distinct from each other. The votes of other graduate schools will be recorded under one total. In order to facilitate this distinction white ballots will be used for undergraduates, yellow ones for Law students, blue for Medical students, and red for members of the other graduate schools. The Faculty vote will be distinguished by the use of postal ballots...