Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the yellow and white ballroom lights in Memphis' swank Hotel Peabody, 600 Southern farm folk sat ill at ease one night last week, waiting for the big moment. It came late in the evening-at 9:30 p. m. Most of the farmers' kids were already asleep when Willard C. ("Parson") Teague, chief editorial writer of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, leaned toward the microphone and drawled out the name of the landowner-sweepstakes winner for 1938 in the "C. A.'s" Plant-to-Prosper campaign. Looking completely confused and happy, grey-haired Farmer H. L. Majure...
Musing on fighting words that could be and had been legally sent through the mails. General Hugh Samuel Johnson, himself no tyro at invective and abuse, suggested a few more: '"asymptote" ("a daisy of a word"), "parasang," "Cush-ping Dishpit." ("an evil sound and no meaning"), "yellow-bellied sap-sucker," "boat-bottomed grackel." "bottle-nosed puffin...
...yellow paper cover, drilled for a kitchen nail, is the same as in 1793. Unchanged are its astronomical and tide charts, its page of "Poetry, Anecdotes and Pleasantries." It has articles on molasses silage, fertilizer, a recipe for eggnog pie. Under "December hath 31 days," a reader may still glean such nuggets from the recent past as "Sitting Bull killed in fight between Soldiers and Indians...
Ostensible purpose of the gathering, which showed Radcliffe girls for the first time in high-heeled shoes and daring decolletage, was to put a crimp in the Yellow Peril by supporting the Japanese boycott...
...Irvine had been head of the luetic (syphilitic) clinic for five years, had pre pared thousands of injections. That morning, she ordered neoarsphenamine from the hospital's chemist, and when she received the yellow powder, did not bother to look at the label but merely mixed five-to-twelve-grain doses of the drug in dis tilled water...