Word: yellowing
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...theory, I went to the Copley Plaza this evening where Boston's social life centres in all its worst aspects. I had determined to show my complete unconsciousness of all that stupidity of convention which these people affect. I wore my usual quiet air of assurance and my customary yellow flannel shirt (I should have preferred my other one,--which is more appropriately black,--but that I left at the Comrades' headquarters in New York) which I leave independently unbuttoned at the throat. Of course, I never use the affectation...
...ancient peoples of the New World. It is thought to have begun about the first century before Christ, reaching its zenith from 400-600 A. D., and to have flourished at intervals until about 1400 A. D. The Spaniards found these sites depopulated. Epidemics of yellow fever and other tropical diseases are believed to have caused the decline and fall of this great people...
...suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...
...brilliant yellow journal like the New York American will play the story for all it is worth from every angle. Editorially committed to the adulation of the common man (the "Mr. Dubb" of its cartoons), it commercializes the fact that the vice of riches lay at the bottom of the tragedy. It breaks through the tacit and decent understanding between " respectable" papers whereby Mr, Mitchell's family was shielded and exposes him with picture and headlines, thus: " Here is 'Marshall' unmasked. The respected John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia, New York and Boston clubdom, a member by marriage...
...dust heap." He pointed out that the man who discovered methods of inoculation against cholera (Waldemar M. W. Haffkine) and the man who discovered the cure for sleeping sickness (Sir David Bruce) are neither of them now employed by Great Britain. Also, Walter Reed, the American who discovered that yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, died without knowing how his wife and children would be provided...