Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nearly four feet high, the Trophy consists of a globe of the world perched on a winged Victory sprouting from a plinth of mottled yellow onyx. Festooned around the middle is a brightly enameled Blue Ribbon. Attached elsewhere are models of old galleons, pictures of modern liners, statues of Neptune & Amphitrite. Atop the whole confection is a winged figure called Speed lunging forward with a liner held high in his right hand, while his left straight-arms a crumpling figure called Force of the Atlantic...
Achilles Had a Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...
...Germany." Asks Unofficial Observer: "Who will be next? America? Japan? Russia?" This colossus is deathly ill, "weary in every cell," its clay head aching with the problem of preventing war or disorder in Europe which would immobilize the fleet while "the great duel between the white and the yellow races is fought...
Nothing so pleases a man who likes to beat his wife as a loud brawl among the neighbors, and last week Japan's yellow men were elated as whites & blacks made front page war (see p. 19). Haggard old China has been due for another beating all summer, and spry Japan, while prepared to lay on the whangee anyhow, is well content that it should make only back-page news. Almost unnoticed last week, seven Japanese river gunboats steamed up the swirling, muddy Yangtze to put huge Hankow, the "Chicago of China," at the mercy of Japanese shot...
First correspondent in Ethiopia, and first to die, was the Chicago Tribune's able Wilfred Courtenay ("Will") Barber, 31, who reached the country in June, sickened month ago in the "yellow hell" of Ogaden. Last week he died of tertian malaria, nephritis and influenza, was buried on a hilltop in Addis Ababa...