Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nineties, the Naughty Nineties, the Nineties of the Yellow Book, these things were done well, these clever plays without any raison d'etre except their devilish cleverness. But in the decade of grace 1920-30 we seem to lack the flair. So it is small wonder that a play like "The Circle", which the Repertory players are presenting this week, should prove too much for its author, Somerset Maugham...
...pure African descent. The blood of the white or yellow race does not flow in my veins. I am a Negro, a word derived appropriately from the Latin niger, meaning black, and used by the ancient Romans to indicate my ancestors who lived south of the Sahara Desert. . . . I, a veteran of the War against the Germans, am visiting America in the interest of commercial affairs. I have been north and south, closely and privately observing with an open mind. I believe that I can see the points of view of both races, and appreciate the inevitable conditions that exist...
...market gardener, who lived just outside Oslo, then Christiania. One way and another young Andrew completed his education at St. Olaf's College and prepared for the bar. After a time he settled down to practice in Granite Falls, Minn. The year he arrived they made him attorney of Yellow Medicine County. He had Germans, Scandinavians, Canadians and "Americans" in his bailiwick. For 14 years part of his job was prosecuting blind-pigs, but he was not known as a drastic prohibitionist?rather as a man who "plugged" at his job. He also held the jobs of mayor, city attorney...
...drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations, by the application of powdered starch, and by giving nourishing, easily digested foods. After a few days the beginning edges of the stain fade to a sickly yellow, which follows after the wave of red. The skin scales off in tiny flakes. The fever subsides. Later the skin resumes its normal tone. One attack of erysipelas does not furnish unaided immunity against future ones. This is the treacherous aspect of this disease...
...humans?an Alaskan "sourdough"* called Waskey and Earl Rossman, a U. S. newspaper reporter?would be occupied with a slim skein of wires, a box and two silvery bulbs that occasionally glowed a chilly yellow against the trampled snow. In his head phones, Waskey could distinguish a thin piping note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber...