Word: redder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Horses last week figuratively rubbed its hands. Its horse-racing season had opened. The fat figure of Harry ("Hot Dog") Stevens seemed to grow fatter as he turned hungry people away from his race track club. The red face of Edward J. Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled yellow, open-faced hacks with fringed awnings, four...
...question game. Was that Swede really eaten by those two Italians? Would Dictator Mussolini snub and degrade General Nobile? What about Titina, the General's little, yapping fox terrier bitch? Why wasn't she eaten? Is bitch eating worse than cannibalism? Russia. Moscow and Leningrad saw redder than usual, last week, as the great Communist newspapers Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia ("News'") flayed "these Fascist swine!" An editorial in Pravda-whose editor is Nikolai Bukharin, closest associate of Dictator Josef Stalin (see RUSSIA)-keynoted significantly thus: "Here in Russia we know the true meaning of the word comrade...
...Governor addressed now and then to ease his mind. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner (eldest daughter) and her husband were there, too. Also Walter Smith (youngest son), Mrs. Belle Moskowitz (chief publicist) and her husband; also secretaries, friends, newsgatherers. The Governor chewed long cigars, drank water frequently. His face was redder than usual. His hands moved constantly, though not fidgeting...
...however, while the Senior boat dropped slowly behind the other two. At the Harvard Bridge the Sophomores led by a length, with the Juniors the same distance ahead of the 1927 crew. Just beyond this point, however, the Sophomores pulled steadily away. The Seniors hung on to the Juniors' redder until the Henley, but then fell back. At the finish the 1929 crew led the Juniors by four lengths, with the 1928 shell three lengths ahead of the Seniors...
...College needed, badly, a new dictionary. Meeting at Little Rock, the American Legion of Arkansas was aroused by a vigilant patriot, to whom Commonwealth's continued vigor could mean but one thing, with news that the College was heavily subsidized by the I. W. W. and even redder Reds. The patriot, however, was found ignorant of the fact that Commonwealth was founded, with the endorsement of leading Arkansas politicians and others, including Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, as a cooperative, "intellectually aristocratic" institution open to all men but specially designed (in cost) for workers, regardless of creed...