Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your tennis reports on the French-American matches in New York and Cannes, in your issue of March 1, are not worthy of your publication. They smack distinctly of the very "yellow-journalism" of which you accuse Hearst and the "gum-chewers' sheetlets." Some of your readers may appreciate your efforts at irony in these reports, but American as well as French tennis players will resent your discourteous and wholly unfair reference to our French guests and competitors...
...great river Pei-ho forms the high-waterway through Peking and Tientsin to the Yellow Sea. By the terms of the Boxer Protocol of 1901 it must be kept open in the interest of the Great Powers. Last week a handful of Chinese mercenaries blocked it to shipping...
Porcelain. A Chinese vase in green, yellow, and aubergine (1665) to Frank Partridge of London for $3,100, the highest price paid for anything in the porcelain collection. B. N. Needham, Manhattan collector, paid $2,000 for a Chamberlain Worcester dessert service of 45 pieces. Each plate is painted with a scene from one of Shakespeare's plays, and has on its back (in case any inquisitive guest should turn it over) an appropriate quotation from the bard...
...year circled the earth peering intently into the faces of the people he encountered, scrutinizing their hair, their ears and jaws, their chins and cheekbones. When he returned last fall he remarked upon the strangeness of seeing "red Indians" in Asia, Negritos (a Philippine and African type), in India, yellow-haired and bearded women among black Australian aborigines. He is "a great one for remembering faces," a greater one for understanding, classifying them...
Peterson, the tailor, is gone but his pillow exists yellow with age and crusted still with the fatal stains. Last week the will of Tailor Peterson's daughter, Mrs. Pauline Peterson Wenzing, was probated. This Mrs. Wenzing was a girl of 13 on the night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...