Word: yellows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another pleasant walk is up Brattle street. This takes us past the old Lowell estate, which is on our left, an old house, painted of course, yellow and white, set back a considerable distance from the street, and surrounded by very spacious grounds, which contain a fine grove of tall trees, and are themselves surrounded by an almost inhospitably tall fence. Next we come to Mt. Auburn cemetery, which is of course interesting, so to speak, exofficio, and also because it contains a moderately high tower, which is itself considerably elevated. From this we may get a very good...
When Miss Ricci sang for her last time in Philadelphia before coming to Boston, a lot of Princeton students, her devoted admirers, came up to see the opera, and the pretty prima donna returned the compliment by dressing in the college colors-yellow and black. -[Beacon...
...cannot overlook the fine building on the left, which speaks so well for the success and prosperity of the now famous Harvard Annex. The building is a regular old "stager" in its way, a frame structure, nearer the shape of a cube than of anything else, painted a dirty yellow with white trimmings, and generally beautiful, one of the remnants of past ages (appropriate, some have called it), like so many other of the old standard houses that one finds in Cambridge. However imposing such an exterior may be, the interior is wrapped in mystery for the student mind...
...perambulations? I answer, merely that we may pass through a very pleasant quarter of Cambridge, and at the same time, "take in" the Longfellow house, which we cannot fail to see on our left as we move down Brattle street. It is another of the famous old Cambridge houses, yellow and white like so many of the others, with a high fence and hedge in front. Opposite the house is the lot belonging to the Longfellow estate. The poet never would sell it, as he thought too much of the unobstructed view of his "River Charles." We come next...
...LOST- A yellow leather valise. Will the gentleman who took it kindly return it to 17 Divinity Hall. No questions will be asked...