Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blew as the President, after dedicating a monument at Cincinnati, proceeded down the newly-canalized Ohio River. The river steamer Mississippi, especially equipped for the President's ride to Louisville, went aground, forcing him to embark on the less comfortable lighthouse tender Greenbrier. Whipped by enormous winds, the yellow waters rose up into unwonted waves which battered and buffeted the President's craft most disrespectfully...
...that damn New Jersey clay here," he marveled. There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with his old tools, fabricating a replica of the first incandescent electric lamp, switching on the current, seeing the wires glow yellow, then shambling over to his old reed organ in the corner to play a few tunes. The tinkering was the climax of the celebration of "Light's Golden Jubilee." At a preceding jubilee dinner famed voices lauded the greatest Edison achievement. Owen D. Young was toastmaster. President Hoover spoke...
...Farm Board has advanced $7,250,000 to cotton growers' coöperatives to offset slumped prices. Corn. Prices fell sharply due to an increased crop estimate. Latest U. S. estimate: 2,528,000,000 bu. (previous estimate: 2,456,000,000 bu.). Market (Chicago, No. 2 yellow): last week, $1.11 per bu.; last year...
Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio is famed for its curious plan of study, an experimental system far beyond the wildest dreams of famed Educator Horace Mann, its first President (1853-59). At Antioch, co-educational since 1921, students are divided into two divisions, A & B. In alternating five-week periods, all year round, while one division is at school, the other is working. The A students study while the B students hold down the jobs. Then they shift. Most undergraduates are employed in nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories...
Mary's death made Elizabeth queen at 25. The yellow-red ringlets of her hair framed a dead-white face accented by dark, steady eyes. Though she "spat and swore like a man . . . suitors sprang up like mushrooms." Elizabeth, it seems, was ''broadminded about her favorites, but snobbish about her suitors." With one favorite, the brown-skinned Leicester, she was intimate in public but denied that she made similar concessions in private. Ben Jonson opined that she was "incapable of man" and Brantome, always physiologically acute, offered a theory ex- plaining that theory. Elizabeth rejected King Philip...