Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago, the staid and refined Cantabridgia Club was transformed with the help of several sheets of orchid tinted boarding into the bacchanalian Club 100. Several blocks from this whoopee manufactory stands another old establishment with a new lease on life: yellow, clapboarded Brattle Hall. For years an annual set of Saturday night subscription dances, fondly remembered by contemporaries of U. M. Pulbam and others as the "Brats," were held here. And sporadically, throughout many a winter, its grimly rearward rooms were taken over by obstreperous young amateur thespians who would onliven otherwise dull performances by jiggling scenery and communicating...
...masterpiece of yellow journalism and a breach of every code of decency I know...
...Nationalists retorted that the Communists intended to seize the fund for their party treasury, paying the displaced peasants in depreciated Communist currency and using the profit to buy arms. But the Nanking Government was so anxious to keep the Yellow River project alive that it offered to send a $5 billion down payment by UNRRA courier...
...cave paintings are among the oldest art known. The reason they looked so fresh was that every year, for centuries, Australian aborigines had retouched them with red and yellow ocher and pipeclay white. The aborigines believe that wond'ina-the strong, gentle spirits of rain and fertility-made the pictures originally, by casting their shadows on the rocks...
Wright's plan calls for four mushroom-shaped chapels, to be named the White, Blue, Rose and Yellow Chapels respectively, each with a "Slumber Room" for bodies lying in state. Also planned: a pyramidal structure lopped off at the top to provide a landing field for helicopters, a tall-spired kiosk to serve as a flower booth, and a two-story office building where the bereaved will be consulted, tombstones sold, and living space provided for a four-man night shift...