Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest U. S. opium-smuggling catch in years, perhaps in all time. The Dollar Line was in danger of a fine of $400,000 for what was presumably the work of skulking yellow employees. At trial, a point in the Dollar Line's favor will be that, some time ago, it invited the U. S. to maintain customs officers aboard its ships. The U. S. declined...
...Chicago that Yellow taxis, in 1915, made their first appearance; it was in Chicago that they multiplied most rapidly; and it was in Chicago last week that Yellow cabs waged with their rivals. Checker cabs, a fierce, fantastic warfare. The cause of the war was of course to be found in business and labor rivalries. The Yellow cabs belong to the Yellow Cab Co., of which Mr. Hertz is president; it employs drivers, giving them a percentage of their cab earnings. Oldest in Chicago, it has the best and most numerous stands. The Checker Cab Co. is newer, has poorer...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Richard Felton Outcault, 65, who caused the phrase, "yellow journalism," and had a good time doing...
...place called Hogan's Alley, of which the hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born the first colored comic strip...
William Randolph Hearst of the Journal lured Outcault and his Yellow Kid away from the World along with most of the World's Sunday staff. The World countered with another Yellow Kid series. Serious-minded people pointed to the Yellow Kids as horrible examples, cried out against the "yellow journalism" of both Hearst and Pulitzer.* But Outcault was enjoying himself and his Yellow Kid was shouting: "I wish dat dese lovely wimmin wud leave me alone." He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough...