Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great many people in the U. S. know Liggett's Drug Store. Enticing the eye (as any good drug store should) with its walls of water-clear glass, its ranked bottles of yellow and orange and blue, its showcases piled with new brushes, sponges, utensils of vanity, the mingled sight of prophylactics, vanilla ice cream sodas, popular face powders, this Liggett's establishment is repeated in dozens of U. S. cities, always neat, always glittering, always the same...
...which I take full responsibility. It is may opinion that this "fanfare" of interest in the University is being tended and fueled by the CRIMSON simply to arouse interest in the CRIMSON. In other words the CRIMSON is in danger of changing its color from white to yellow, which is far more pressing problem to the college than that of football...
...carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from the needle of a woman named Helen Pascal...
...GREEN HAT-The yellow Hispano Suiza of Michael Arlen has driven up to the stage door and unloaded all its politely worthless characters...
...writes interestingly of the paper at this period. "On the whole we got out a pretty good paper. We were certainly conservative, both as to makeup and contents, but at least we treated the English language with some degree of respect. We were very much afraid of imitating the yellow press. It was not until 1907 that we permitted ourselves a triple head over a news story or a caption of any kind over an Editorial. . . The paper was indispensable because of its notices, but I don't believe it was generally read, except by the editors...