Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dorothy Gish 1,004 Lillian Gish 36,967 George W. Goethals 2,719 Prank Jay Gould 196,813 E. H. R. Green (son of Hetty).... 222,712 Walter Hampden 2,718 Will Hays 10,234 Howard Heintz 191,374 Myron T. Herreck 6,929 John Hertz (Yellow Taxi) 8,316 Mrs. John Hertz 5,215 Alanson B. Houghton 32,404 Charles E. Hughes 1,554 Mayor Hylan 0 Al Jolson 33,744 Otto H. Kahn 391,776 Rudyard Kipling 4,998 Sebastian S. Kresge (5 & lOc Stores) 188,608 William B. Leeds 57,445 Florence Pullman Lowden...
...produce, among other useful oddities, the spineless cactus, once a nuisance, now a fodder; fat, perennial rhubarb out of a skinny annual; plums with thick skins that endure the rigors of shipping and without pits, which eliminates an annoyance in eating; the flaming crimson poppy from a wan yellow bloom; the popular Shasta daisy...
Colored Cats. Long and learned reports were read upon the inheritance of fur color in cats. A mysterious story had got abroad that zoological gardens, cat clubs, museums were anxious to obtain specimens of three-colored cats, such as the rare tortoiseshell, black and yellow hybrid. Result: floods of letters from people with tricolored felines, many ingeniously complicated breeding experiments...
...importunity of a megaphoning bus-starter and have ridden THROUGH CHINATOWN FOR $1. On such rides they beheld Orientals going and coming in the streets, with the short scuffling step and the furtive stoop which they have borrowed from the cinema. They scrutinized the houses of these yellow men? miserable places for the most part, tenements, tumbled shanties, bars, and chop suey joints, all dingy, or garish, not one of them revealing the least hint of that exotic magnificence without which, as everyone knows, no Chinaman can exist. But the sightseers were not deceived...
Nevertheless, at a luncheon of notable physicians in Manhattan last week, the company focused its interest upon leprosy. William H. P. Anderson, General Secretary of the American mission to lepers, spoke of the developments in treatment, hinted that in a few years leprosy would be "as rare as yellow fever." Said...