Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear any discussion between Thomas and Butt?" asked Mr. Justice Porter, emphasizing the question with stabs of a yellow pencil...
...girl with eager eyes and yellow hair . ." and I also see Keats', "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer", with...
France's No. 1 battlefield honor is the Médaille Militaire. By a curious quirk, only generals commanding armies, noncommissioned officers and enlisted men can win the green-and-yellow-ribboned decoration, the former for their strategic vision, the latter for their bravery in direct action. Though the French War Ministry has no record of the number awarded since 1852, some 300,000 recipients are alive today...
...straight, quiet streets which run north & south in Topeka, Kans. are named for U. S. Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb...
Died. Oswald Spengler, 55, famed German philosopher; of a heart attack; in Munich. His monumental, two-volume The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), predicting the extinction of Western civilization by the yellow race within 300 years, was written in an unheated Berlin flat. Published just after the War, it brought him wealth and an international reputation. A onetime National Socialist hero because of his distrust of Communism and non-Aryan races, Spengler soon alienated party leaders by his strong independence of spirit, his refusal to turn his talents to Jew-baiting...