Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, the White House social season was canceled, and the President prepared to move out of the executive mansion on his return from Key West. He would begin his second term in office in historic Blair House,* a 124-year-old, four-story yellow stucco house on Pennsylvania Avenue, which the State Department bought six years ago to house distinguished visitors from abroad. Cheek by jowl with it is Lee House, which the President will also take over. Workmen are already cutting out a connecting doorway...
...waitresses at L'Humanité's peace cocktail party wore neat, black dresses and crisp white aprons. They served only one drink -a pale yellow liquid which tasted vaguely like a martini. About a hundred foreign newspapermen, including only a handful of Americans, showed up at the party on the seventh floor of the building. The official host was stooping, white-haired Marcel Cachin, director of L'Humanité, whose attacks on the U.S. have been among the most violent and slanderous. He greeted U.S. journalists with great cordiality: "How nice of you to come...
...down Mt. Auburn on the run, leaping to touch the magenia flags with his fingertips. "Har--vard!" he called to the clear New England sky, but it didn't blanch. The people didn't turn around, doors didn't fly open; the traffic light went casually from green to yellow. "Har--vard," Vag called once again, and then slowed to a walk. Doesn't anybody care? he wondered...
...Most of the city's activities centered around the railway station and airports. Streets by the depot were jammed with refugees peddling odd bits of belongings to buy food at the steaming vendors' stands lining the sidewalks. Every few hours, trains overflowing with yellow-clad troops chuffed from Mukden station and rattled west toward Yingkow...
...consistently acceptable, but like any artist she hits her peak only occasionally. One of the best papers in last week's show, a linear, oriental-seeming study of ducks in long grass (see cut), was inspired just back of her Brewster, N.Y. house. "We had a pair of yellow ducks," she explained, "and the children were chasing them. All I had to do was put it down. Things often come that way, but of course I understood how the blades of grass grew, from having studied them before...