Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white farmer named Fred Kruse got up and told the others what was what. Hindus and Japanese were moving up from Imperial Valley. In spite of Arizona's land laws which forbid aliens ineligible for U. S. citizenship from owning, leasing or farming land except as laborers, yellow men and brown were already farming 8,000 acres. It was time to put a stop to it! Let every Japanese and Hindu quit the valley by Saturday night or the Aryans would run them...
...Toronto, the Canadian National Art Exhibition hung an Annunciation by one Evan Walters. In blue pajamas and halo the Virgin sits on a box. A Gabriel in bright yellow aviation suit points to the ceiling. Through the open door of the small shack may be seen Gabriel's airplane. Cried outraged clergymen: "Rotten! Ridiculous! Bad taste!" Director Fred Haines said that artists have often painted the Virgin in contemporary clothes, denied the picture would be removed...
...hands of contractors, ready for razing, was Palm Beach's straggling yellow 40-year-old Royal Poinciana, most famed of Florida hotels, largest frame building...
...Beebe's verbal description of this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...
...central figure. The Portland Congress opened last week with a service in honor of Cardinal Lepicier in the Cathedral of St. Mary. To the Sanctuary went 25,000 people, for masses, processions, hymns, Marian sermons, disputations on Mariological topics. For all who wished a souvenir there were small yellow-bound copies of Cardinal Lepicier's work, Behold Thy Mother...