Word: yellowish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afternoons, Rulka and her mother and Aunt Madzia rolled bandages for the hospitals-clean at first, then nicely laundered, then, "yellowish and frayed, some had horrible half-washed streaks on them." The cook and an unpleasant refugee named Mrs. Gruda worked and reveled together over atrocity stories, while with loud laughter the children built block cities and destroyed them. In the evenings, the Langers took heart in the speeches of their Mayor Starzynski...
...cities, they are more than a novel convenience; they are a necessity. In darkened Britain, during the early months of blackout, the death rate from falls, collisions and other accidents was almost twice that of well-lit peacetime years. Still high, it would be far higher without the wan yellowish gleam of curbs, guide rails, doorways, signs and even pedestrians' lapels and trouser cuffs touched with luminescent pigments...
...fusty workrooms of the Smithsonian Institution last week reposed some 50 hard little balls, one-half inch to one inch in diameter. To a layman's eye they looked like dull, dirty grey or yellowish grey pebbles. Actually they are pearls-and, as pearls go, huge. Their value as jewels is zero, but they are precious to science. They are fossil pearls...
Gertrude Stein's book has good pictures, peaceful and exciting pictures. There is one of Sacre Coeur and the hill of Montmartre painted gaily like a cake with a frilled yellowish cloud up on top, by Lascaux. There are other pictures, one of them is an 18th-Century script drawing of Voltaire one is by Picasso one is by Sir Francis Rose. The Germans are in Paris but would they paint pictures like these and would they like Gertrude Stein's writing about Paris and the French. Would they yes would they...
...Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital last week, a crowd of doctors from all over the eastern U. S. stared fixedly at a glass jar suspended above a patient's bed. The patient had syphilis. From the bottom of the jar, a yellowish fluid trickled through a flexible glass tube into a needle inserted in the vein between his elbow and wrist. Proudly the patient grinned at his distinguished guests, flexed his arm. Snapped his nurse: "Don't show off." The apparatus was an ordinary "Murphy drip," long used for glucose feedings...