Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...periodical tong war of the Chinese are undertaken with a disgraceful seriousness and a criminal disregard of the dramatic possibilities. With all the assets of romantic wrongdoing at his disposal for publicity, Mr. Brisbape's benevolent press agenting of the yellow peril, for weapon, the long, slim dagger of the Orient, for place of execution, a mysterious opium den, the tong-man most prosaically shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open...
Louis D'Arclay gave a spirited performance as Chico, the sewer rat who never let life get the better of him. When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden...
...Yellow dogs!" and sung their song...
...Last week, in the dimness of innumerable U. S. tabernacles, the shofar* sounded, reminding the Jews that the world was created by God out of void and a howling darkness 5,686 years ago. The horn rang at sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good cheer. In The American Hebrew appeared...
...These rabbits, male and female, known as "Tootsie" and "Tweedledum" respectively, brightened the duller moments of Thaw's life at Matteawan. He pinched them until they squealed, bit them with his yellow teech, chased them with a pole, tossed them 40 feet in air and let them fall on the ground "to see if it would hurt them...