Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dinner is Served. To Manhattan's dramatic critics, sneaking back to their kennels, scorched an unwholesome yellow by the country sun, this dull trifle was used as an excuse for bored and wintry sarcasms. It repeated, stupidly, the theatrical cliche of the wife who wanted her husband to love her and whose trite appetites were gratified through the complicating assistance of her husband's friend. Alan Mowbray, of Theatre Guild scrub casts, wrote it himself, a handicap which his histrionic ability was not sufficient to overcome...
...Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled yellow, open-faced hacks with fringed awnings, four-in-hands, victorias, still the choice of many a Saratoga horse-lover...
...relish five separate and distinct brews, including a famed ale made by his gastronomically expert grandfather, Edward VII. Slightly flushed, Edward of Wales went with the directors later to the brew house, peered cautiously into a great copper vat half filled with a fermenting mass of brown syrupy malt, yellow flaky hops...
...streets blazed. Black-shirted soldiers halted the crowds, inspected pockets, handbags. By 4 p. m. the immense elliptical plaza before St. Peter's was packed with 200,000 expectant, perspiring people. At the far end loomed the pillared portico of Christendom's mightiest church, draped with languid purple streamers, yellow and white papal flags, banners of Italy...
...Chicago Yellow Cab Co., Inc. (operates 2,800 Yellow Cabs in Chicago; also Drive-it-yourself companies in New York, Chicago, Delaware) Net profit...