Word: reddish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without realizing it, men-in-the-street are prone to think of the Socialist nebula as a misty organism of a more or less reddish hue, with parties and particles, creeds, organs, persons and programs whirling round & round, and getting nowhere except in Soviet Russia, which is east of Europe and therefore does not count. Red footstools, red neckties, intentionally crude cartoons, stuffy parlors and garrets, late hours, morose arguments, "long-haired men and short-haired women," dirty fingernails and a strange courage, are among the peculiar properties of Socialism...
ALFRED E. SMITH-Henry F. Pringle-Macy-Masius ($3). "Al Smith's face is always reddish. In the heat of a vehement address it becomes crimson. He sweats ... he is all that could be desired of a Governor, even by the most correct of critics. . . . His tailoring is immaculate, there is about him just a trace of his trucking days. ... He is discordant, often awkward, lacking in versatility. . . . Tremendously effective. . . ." It is difficult, in writing the biography of a living statesman, to indicate his character without becoming technically libelous. This difficulty Author Pringle has met rather than avoided...
Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...
...bastard metal" element, brittle, reddish white, mined in the free state in Saxony, Bohemia, Cornwall. Bolivia. Its best known use is as bismuth subnitrate, a therapeutic for dyspepsia and diarrhea. Taken internally with water the white powder slowly forms nitric acid, a powerful antiseptic. Its physical properties make it astringent, good for nausea...
Nearer to men than it had come for two years, but seven million miles less near than it had come two years ago, came Mars. Faintly reddish in tinge, it rose to the zenith, a bright disc 76 times smaller (optically) than Earth's full moon, giving U. S. astronomers a far better view than they had in 1924, when Mars hung low on the horizon. Being the only planet near enough for men to study with their telescopes, Mars has for centuries excited speculation as to whether or not it is inhabited, speculation which had lately given...