Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only minimize or emphasize news to fit your disdain, but distort it to give rise to the spectacular. These are the attributes of yellow papers, and I, who for months have been an ardent admirer of your publication, feel disappointed...
Locked in the vaults of the Bank of Spain, at Madrid, some 97 aged documents have been moldering into sear yellow crinkles. Not long ago a South American republic was reported to have offered three million pesetas ($420,000) for them. Their owner, the Duke of Veragua, direct descendant of Christopher Columbus, politely declined...
...scourge of dogs. Almost all have it at some time, but those that have it badly, even if they do not die, are generally done for. Blinded, paralyzed or twisted, they can only find a spot in a stable-yard and wait for death. Hard is the lot of yellow alley-dogs, which often have no place to go; they must drag themselves about from corner to corner, pushing a pair of useless front legs or perhaps pulling their bodies behind them like billets because their hind-legs are shriveled to sad bony wisps. Such dogs throw a ghastly shadow...
...mind people who invest in yellow carnations with a big red "H" pasted on them, and my gizard stays pretty steady on seeing Harvard Square golfers buying their winning feathers after the game, but there are a couple of things which makes my gorge rise. The first and the lest offensive is the sticker craze. I suppose I'll have to stomach the exhibition of foreign baggage labels. I've got a few on my bags myself--but the stickers which explain in bold-faced type that Harvard College is responsible for a bag or a trunk and the manners...
...dislike of foreigners is natural; for in China the 'White Peril' is regarded with far more alarm than is the 'Yellow Peril' here. But the Yellow Peril is far more real now, because of the folly of the United States immigration policy which is driving the yellow races together as opponents of the white...