Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nieuw Amsterdam's, public rooms and cabins impressed U. S. travelers last week with the uniformity of taste lavished on third class, tourist and cabin class alike. Solid, cleanly built furniture, beautiful fabrics, opulent rugs, plenty of light and unobtrusive color harmonies of silver, beige and light yellow were more important to the general effect than the occasional murals and ornamental work in metal, wood and glass. In an apparent effort to make some distinction between tourist and cabin class quarters, the designers gave cabin class passengers a little Coromandel wood and gold. Finest rooms: the theatre, only...
...Yellow Jack (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is by long odds the cinema season's most thrilling melodrama. Its scene: fever-racked Cuba after the Spanish-American War. Its vampire-villain is Aedes...
...Stegomyia) aegypti, the yellow-fever mosquito. Its heroes are the men who braved mosquito bite to find an effective yellow-fever cure...
...Yellow Jack's story goes from scientific detachment to taut drama, but always with a paucity of heroics, a leavening of lightness and brightness. Fashioned from the Sidney Howard-Paul de Kruif play of 1934. Edward Chodorov's cinema is firmly rooted in facts. It records, against a back-ground of Army life in Cuba, the defeat and heartbreak experienced in 1900 by General Leonard Wood (Jonathan Hale), Major William Crawford Gorgas (Henry O'Neill) and the commission headed by Major Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) in their long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones...
...Varsity, who nicked two Huskies pitchers for nine hits, were generally agreed that there is the little difference between the yellow and white ball...