Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. In famed Manchester ("Doomington") Grammar School, Louis Golding was precocious among prodigies. At Queen's College, Oxford, he was an ostentatious aesthete, a mincing pedestrian with yellow hair all abroad and much thin-piping, decadent erudition. His poems and essays of the period (1919-22) run salt and shallow. Then he settled in the Tyrol, wandering north into Germany, south to Capri and Sicily. Seacoast of Bohemia (1924) gave evidence of a poseur shedding his false skins. Now, at 29, he seems to have written out of his bones...
...gang of rowdy youths who threw stones into his windows, pounded on his doors when he slept, tossed garbage upon the linen he had just laundered. One day last week they began their activities by nonchalantly stoning him through the open door as he bent his wet yellow face over an ironing board. One of the missiles struck the board. Wong Low screamed; the youths jeered. Chattering Chinese imprecations, Low drew a revolver from his blouse, began to shoot. The boys scattered, but one James Courte, aged 22, dodged into a doorway, was "cornered" by the enraged Chinese, received...
Under the cliffs of Disko, near God-haven, an Eskimo kyak (canoe) manned by men in yellow oilskins hailed the pitching Bowdoin in some strange and unintelligible language. As the range shortened, it was perceived that the men spoke English, that they were Mac-Millan's companion-explorers from the Peary, which had preceded the Bowdoin to Disko and lay at anchor around a point...
...some time, General Motors has had a hankering to enter the profitable business of making auto buses. It has been repeatedly rumored that the big auto concern was out after Mack Truck. Quite unexpectedly, however, came the news that it would take over control of the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. shortly, to be re-christened the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing...
...purchase of Yellow Cab will be made without the use of cash, by a judicious plan of exchanging securities. First Yellow Cab will change its name and capital structure, having then 150,000 shares of 7% preferred stock, 600,000 shares of class B stock and 800,000 shares of common stock. The latter issue will then be issued to General Motors in payment for stock of the corporation to which property as aforementioned will be transferred. The class B stockholders will then receive a 25% dividend by having issued to them the 150,000 preferred shares as a consolation...