Word: greasers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gloucester dory regatta on the River. The terms of this contest have not yet been cleared up but it is supposed that the opposing crews will row in the same direction starting from the Weeks Memorial Bridge. Robert Leader Lampoon has been engaged as superficial transom and slide greaser in charge of coaching operations. "Remain long in the water and don't shoot" are the warning words of this mentor...
Artist Diego Rivera believes in revolution, so he dresses the part. He is, however, no ferocious cinema "greaser." He is genial, cultured, industrious. His repute grew, his geniality increased, when last week he was awarded the annual Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects.* Artist Rivera's concept of revolution has nothing to do with either Pope or bombshells. It might be described as a patient communism, and it is reflected in his art. For him, art is a proletariat function, growing out of the hot little huts of peons, expressing their lives...
...retired farmer, bristled at the chin whiskers when he lauded U. S. intervention, thereby pleasing many of his constituents who would like to have the U. S. go in and "clean up" Central America and Mexico, who well know the yell of the Yankee "gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which Calles aspires to be the ruling spirit...