Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thus 2,000,000 Chinese perished through drowning and starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
Self Help. Through more than two millenniums of alternate droughts and floods the Chinese have not supinely disdained to help themselves. Time was when the Yellow River shifted its course among the Chinese coastal lowlands after every flood, meandering scores of miles from its previous channels. So late as 1852 its waters principally flowed into the Yellow Sea at a point some 300 miles below its present main issuance into the Gulf of Chihli. But throughout the last millennium extensive systems of dikes have been gradually thrown up to restrain such rivers as the yellow Hwang Ho, and huge drainage...
Imagine an enormous male doll, bigger than most policemen. Its ruddy skin has a waxen glow. There is a wiglike perfection to its yellow tonsure. Its puffy hands make pawing gestures. Upon its gentle mouth is an infantine wetness. The staring eyes are china-blue and someone has dressed up this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from...
...Woolly-haired, yellow-brownish-skinned South African aborigines. Dutch settlers called them Hottentots (jabberers) because of their clickety-click-click dialect...
...never saw Craig again. But tucked away in a secret drawer of my desk is something that I would not part with for many a cigarette coupon. It is a yellow, faded clipping from the Dybbuk. Vermont. "Self-starter." Tenderly I unfold the old creases and read the" words again...