Word: yellowing
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...know the problems of the immigrant. I know the time will come when we will have to stop immigration entirely. I voted to exclude the yellow races and I think I was justified in doing so. But it seems to me, and I agree absolutely with the Senator from Alabama, Mr. Underwood, and also with the Senator from Missouri, Mr. Reed, when they made speeches here yesterday, that I never would be able to deliver...
...Corriere d' Italia was more resentful. It characterized the American immigration law as "unjust, one-sided and advantageous to Anglo-Saxon, German and Scandinavian immigrants to the injury of Slavs and Italians as well as to the yellow and black races...
...decision of the Senate that the white race and the yellow race do not mix to mutual advantage, which has been expressed in the recently passed amendment to the immigration bill, seems eminently sound, and has the approval of the country at large. It is unfortunate, however, that some method of achieving the same end could not have been discovered which would have been less distasteful than the one just employed. There is a certain callousness in the brusque way in which Japan has been told to keep her citizens at home that is very plainly jarring, if the present...
...laid down the comb and picked up a crystal perfume atomizer; sprayed her yellow crepê sports frock and paced up and down. She was as nervous as a race horse; her voice high pitched...
...first run of this year's yield of sap is in, and the Pudding gave its annual show last night to a capacity house of graduates, filled to capacity with the first run of sap and nice yellow cornmeal...