Kodak says customers were more likely to buy the lighter yellow boxes, logically thinking that the darker boxes were older and therefore contained older film.
When I was growing up, people would sometimes use the phrase about a beautiful actress or model, " a blonde bombshell." " Blonde" meaning, of course, a light-yellow-colored hair.
When it walks through the long forest grass, it is also hard to see, for its hair is the same colour as the blades of yellowish grass and patches of deep shadow.
Do not suppose, however, that Mrs. Poyser was elderly or shrewish in her appearance; she was a good-looking woman, not more than eight-and-thirty, of fair complexion and sandy hair, well-shapen, light-footed.