Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people can witness these blood curdling photos by Norman Alley without realizing immediately that the yellow scourge of the Japanese must be wiped off the earth. As commentator Graham McNamee so succinctly puts it, it was a savage affront to American prestige and to rights fully protected by international law and definite treaties. And so on and so on far, far into the night...
...Although the Chinese authorities had executed 240 Chinese looters, Chinese mobs had destroyed $100,000,000 of Japanese property in Tsingtao by last week when Japanese forces finally crossed the Yellow River, besieged Tsinan, the capital of Shantung...
...Meanwhile the choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsführer Adolf Hitler dedicated a new Hall of German Art with a go-minute denunciation of surrealist and abstract painting. In the U.S. an abstract painting, The Yellow Cloth by Cubist Georges Braque, won First Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition (TIME...
...Alternately stroking his neat goatee and puffing on a long cheroot, he declared "We are all old men, without ambition to hold office, but we feel the responsibility of seeing that China is restored to normalcy, after which we will resign." Up Peking staffs ran the five-barred (red, yellow, blue, white & black) flag of the original Chinese Republic, founded in 1912 at Peking after the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, the staffs on which from 1927 to 1937 flew the red, white & blue flag of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanking Government...
...early twenties Stradivari was still an apprentice in the workshop of Nicolo Amati, whose father and grandfather before him had made fine violins. For some 20 years after he left the workshop, Stradivari continued to imitate Amati's small, yellow-varnished models, then began to experiment with a style of his own. At the age of 56, when most men begin to take things easier, Stradivari painstakingly evolved an entirely new model, broader and darker in color than the Amati. All his life he had been a feverish but carefully slow worker; his later years showed no letdown. Though...