Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pasha Pants. First came the Mardi Gras traditional "Mystic Krewe"-70 men dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and cloak. Then 26 pretty Louisiana "queens" - Yambilee (i.e., yams) Queen, Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon...
Hangover Habit. Hans and Fritz were born of the great circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; Pulitzer's New York Sunday World sired the first colored U.S. comic 61 years ago last week. Its star, a slangy, yellow-nightgowned infant who achieved fame as The Yellow Kid,† was promptly snatched by Hearst for the Sunday Journal's eight-page color supplement. A year later, the Journal dragooned 19-year-old Staff Artist Dirks into composing a cartoon based on German Artist Wilhelm Busch's venerable Max und Moritz drawings...
...their early fans: Artist Pablo Picasso. † And gave to that era of sensationalism the term yellow journalism...
...same demand in English. "This is not religious," muttered one bewildered movieman. "This looks political to me." But he kept his cameras grinding. At last, as suddenly as it had begun, the disturbance was over, and the frenzied crowd disappeared from the square, leaving behind them a cloud of yellow dust kicked up by the stamping of thousands of frantic feet...
...Brainstorming, whose major function is to hold about three brainstorm sessions a week, see to it that his charges sound off loud and clear. The panel of thinkers is made up of admen and (at nonconfidential sessions) outside guests and friends (including housewives). They sit around in a comfortable, yellow-painted (yellow is considered conducive to thought) brainstorm room furnished in homey knotty pine, have plenty of pads, pencils and cigarettes. Lunch is served, then the session begins. A central problem (how to cut down absenteeism, how to improve highway signs) is presented, and everyone storms ahead. No idea...