Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just like a woman, this 160-pound wonder child of the Congo rushed into his bedroom when confronted by a yellow snake. "He just docan't like Yale men," explained his trainer...
Neutral observers and hydraulic engineers in China were appalled by reports that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
...Mink" is notorious George Mink, alias Minkoff, who, according to the U. S. State Department, has a valid U. S. passport. He worked for Yellow Cab Co. in Philadelphia from 1928 until 1933. A Philadelphia cabby who had then known him said last week: "'The Mink' was a Red, all right! He was always startin' arguments, and they were so silly you'd get all burned up and lose your head. He hasn't got the brains of a flea! He won't kill nobody...
...more illegally. At week's end, three Philippine Army planes flew from Manila, scouted the Davao area. Most correspondents concluded from official silence that nobody could find a war fleet, that the jittery customs officer had seen either some harmless tankers or fishing boats, or an equally harmless yellow mirage...
...Recorder," published every Saturday at the Union Printery, Hamilton, and sold for four-pence, does a pretty good job. It prints the color, be it white, yellow or red, in brackets after every name. Thus, reporting the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Meet, "The Recorder" announced that...