Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Hotfoot to a radio telephone trotted Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. "Don't do anything till you see me!" implored the world's greatest tapdancer. When the Queen Mary docked, "Bojangles" took Jesse up to Harlem, lined up a bevy of Lenox Avenue high-yellow girls on a nightclub stage, posed for photographs and hoped that he and Owens would soon have an act together...
Best guess of most observers was that Arthur Krock had not turned yellow journalist, that the President had indeed considered the idea, probably about once, perhaps in an expansive mood at a dinner party whence some little bird may have gone to whisper it in credulous Mr. Krock...
...street outside the Capitania and the courtyard was a flurry of motor cars decked in variegated flags and the inscriptions of different political groups. There were the red and black flags of the Anarchists, the red and yellow stripes of Independent Catalonia, the red, violet and yellow of the Spanish Republic, and many others...
...vein in its lap was the fond hope of the West last week.* Whatever it was, the Jumbo Mine, in the Awakening district of Nevada's Slumbering Hills made headlines from San Francisco to Manhattan. Discoverers were two old prospectors, "Red" Staggs and Clyde Taylor, who spied the yellow flecks on the frozen ground of this sagebrush desert on Jan. 29, 1935. Three months later, in need of cash, they sold their find to George Austin, grizzled, 63-year-old keeper of the general store, hotel and filling station at Jungo, a tiny hamlet on the Western Pacific...
...Ethiopia, Japan, Siam, Australia, the South Sea Islands. Russia. His professional duties ranged from establishing a leper colony in the Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal animation on the history and treatment of leprosy, on his experiences in swimming in shark-infested waters, his friendship with the Prince of Wales, his meeting with King Humbert of Italy...