Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia in 1905 had apparently disintegrated. Her enormous and far-famed army had been repeatedly crushed by the highly organized yellow ants of Japan; her navy had been sunk by these same ants, unexpectedly become amphibious. In Moscow and St. Petersburg masses of stolid workingmen had become sufficiently aroused to barricade the streets and force the government to abandon, in an orgy of ambiguity, its autocratic insolence, if not the autocracy itself...
...nine paintings, "Cyclamen," "Spider Wort," "Yellow Iris," "Spring Flowers," "Victorian Parlour," "Autumn Flowers," "Peonies," "Still Life," and "Bee Balm" are arranged over the book shelves, which are covered with light brown paper to give a monotone background...
...pale green, the least liked color. Dr. Freeborn, specialist in sheep & poultry parasites, conducted his housefly balloting by exposing a big rectangular board divided into squares of different colors, counting the number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow,. 6,541; dark blue, 4,750; canary yellow, 4,489; carmine, 4,415; jade green, 3,819; light grey, 3,790; light blue, 3,480; aluminum, 3,426; light coral red, 3,361; white, 2,360; ivory yellow, 2,238; light green...
...averse to oath-taking if his "mission of revolution" could be advanced by continuing to teach. More explanation of Communism would undoubtedly cause many unwarranted dismissals. It is impossible to subscribe to the opinion of our super-patriotic organizations that ignorance is bliss. Nor is it possible it support yellow-press inspired and emotional legislating rather than reason in the effort to thwart Communism...
Author Whitcomb writes his book in straight U. S. lingo, and the happy result is authentic U. S. reality-as far removed from literary realism as from the dreary violence of yellow journalese. Hero-narrator is one Matt Williams, U. S. bricklayer in his middle 30's; his story, told straight from the side of his mouth, is typical of hundreds of thousands but he tells it so freshly that it does not seem like an old tale. He starts in with a bang that never fades out to a whimper...