Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dawn last week, hooded and clutching a crucifix after a last-minute shift from Mormonism to Roman Catholicism, Delbert Green was led out into a dirt courtyard, strapped in a chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired, and Delbert Green's head jerked skyward...
...Current Affairs Test, Question No. 105, you state: "A 19th Century French painter who is famous for the distinctive yellow coloring . . . ." The answer you give is Van Gogh...
...Gogh was not a Frenchman. He was born in Zundert, Brabant province, The Netherlands, son of a Dutch clergyman and his wife, Anna Cornelia. It is true that his distinctive yellow coloring was developed during his residence...
...when he nearly went blind. At 20 he published his first book, The Burning Wheel, a volume of poems. After the War he became an art, music and dramatic critic, was on the staff of London House and Garden when, in 1921, he published his first novel, Crome Yellow. The dominant note of that book, as of Antic Hay and Those Barren Leaves which followed it, was one of unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals. In Huxley's characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality...
Many an observer who recalled that Kagawa visited the U. S. in 1931 without causing inordinate excitement credited much of the success of his latest tour to his sponsors, mostly liberal evangelical churchmen, who did able advance work in stirring up church interest wherever the little yellow man was booked. Before Kagawa had traveled very far, many people heard that his messages, mostly about "the love principle of Christ," were almost incomprehensible, delivered with a squeaky voice in a heavy Japanese accent. Nevertheless, out of sheer curiosity many a citizen obtained a free ticket...