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...weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should the X law pass." B was elected?did he die in 1900 or was it 1901? The X law passed?and is as forgotten as the names of Secretaries of Agriculture. "Vanity?all is Vanity," say the yellow leaves of the bound volumes...
Will the Argentine Supplant Balieff and King Tut in Popular Favor? It is a subconscious maxim with Mr. Lee Shubert, Mr. George White and Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld that " - the things you will learn from the yellow an' brown They'll 'elp you a lot with the white." They seek glittering material for their revues from the life of other worlds. Their stages became hothouses where strange exotic plants, emerald, gold and scarlet, are bought across the seas for a brief blossoming. For 20 years American producing gardeners have been transplanting color, sound and movement - so great...
...sanitary war against the mosquito and the housefly knows no armistice. While the Anopheles and Aedes aegypti, carriers of malaria and yellow fever germs, respectively, are not indigenous to the Northern States, nevertheless the common Culex is a menace to health and comfort...
...Pickering, of Harvard, about 15 years ago, there have been marked changes on Mars. The dark marking called Syrtis Major, or the hourglass, has developed an appendage on one side which makes its shape nearly square. A large area of about 100,000 square miles, formerly appearing pale yellow like a desert region, has changed to a dusky brown. Some of the so-called lakes which had almost disappeared, have become unusually dark lately. New canals have appeared and others have changed color or broadened. But they do not show the vast, complicated network which Professor Lowell thought he observed...
...figure pieces at the seashore are full of flowing line, quivering color, spacious luminosity. Typifying these qualities are the fine group in the Metropolitan, including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging the full-bellied sailboat through the surf. Sorolla is also represented in the Luxembourg, the Berlin National Gallery, the Venice, Madrid...