Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most striking picture in the current showing is that of Reginald Marsh, "High Yaller". This depicts a tall negro beauty striding down a Harlem street clad in her best Sunday finery. A dress of extraordinarily bright yellow contrasts strikingly with the grimness of the brownstone steps before which she passes and with the dusky hue of her skin. The modeling of the statesque figure is most carefully and wonderfully done, thereby achieving a most vivid sense of motion and a swinging gait...
...friends killed 220 different animals in Africa last winter to investigate their adrenal glands. Because the lion's adrenals weighed 1/11,,000th of its total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor...
...drivers would be outclassed. Fastest qualifying time was made by nervous little Roman-nosed Tazio Nuvolari, who has won 87 out of the 153 races he has entered and is currently considered Europe's best driver. In a bright red Alfa-Romeo, wearing a white helmet, yellow sweater and blue denim pants, Nuvolari took the lead on the first lap. Close behind, in identical Alfa-Romeos, came his two countrymen, Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack-ups and collisions which the crowd had come to see showed no signs of materializing. Instead...
...threats of court action to force him in, John Milton Nichols declaimed: "I will be in the banking business long after you fellows have gone home, and you will go with the recollection that there was one banker that did not have a yellow streak all the way from his heels to the top of his head." For not putting FDIC signs on his tellers' windows the Government threatened to fine Banker Nichols $100 per day per window. Promptly, Banker Nichols threatened to close all but one window. In an expansive mood, he once began a letter to Comptroller...
...dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind's whim." In the networks of wires and trenches, the miles of invisible men, walking, talking, fighting, dying, the great chaos of war always seemed insanely futile from...