Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, June 1. . . . Rainbow Room incident. I was seated at dais, talking to lady. Wedemar came to table and saluted me with, "Hello, you yellow ." Familiar with crude Wedemar humor, I attempted to pass off remark with ''Hello, Lou!" He repeated salutation and I stood up, drew him aside and said, "Lou, do you mean that, or are you kidding?" He assured me, with another offensive remark, that he meant it. I led him outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election...
...majority of Pennsylvania delegates would plump for Landon. All the Old Guard politicians were conspiring in vain to ''Stop Landon." Indiana's State Convention picked its delegates, tagged them Landon. Emporia's sage, beaming William Allen White, and troops of Kansans roamed the streets wearing yellow sunflowers inscribed "Landon." The Texas delegation came out, all over again, for Landon...
After that, cheering never stopped as Haile Selassie, his children and his crates were whisked by limousine under guard of Scotland Yard detectives to a sumptuous, cream-yellow house facing Hyde Park at No. 5 Princes Gate, the home of the U. S. Ambassador being nearby at No. 14. Alighting, His Majesty was met with shouts of "Say any old thing, Haile Selassie! Hurrah for the Emperor! Good Old Haile Selassie...
...person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue and mirrors. Venetian Sitting Room mixed a magnificent pair of Venetian doors, a green Aubusson rug and a modern paned mirror. Modern Drawing Room, in grey, yellow and chartreuse, showed the sure-fire de Wolfe method of using fairly simple and expensive pieces of various periods with some modern lighting, square stuffed chairs, more mirrors and light-colored walls...
...Dale Nichols and another by J. William Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...