Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...babble of voices grew excited, acrimonious. Fac^s grew red. Suddenly the State Senator clenched his fist and swung at the Governor. The Governor careened against the wall. Before he could retaliate, his secretary jumped at him, pinioned his arms. Most of the flushed group at once took sides, shouted and pummeled each other. Police were called, but when they arrived the scuffle had subsided to a murmurous discussion...
Seagulls poised and wheeling in the hot blue sky above the Indian Ocean espied, last week, a long, low, incredibly slender ship, darting with splendid speed toward Aden, the Red Sea, Suez. A literate seagull might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only...
...wave, and from the Enterprise's short, rakishly tilted funnels spewed enough smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...
Most people suppose that the American Red Cross never turns a deaf ear to the appeals of famished, stricken sufferers. When reports were first current (TIME, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore...
...American Red Cross spent $1,214,000 on relief in China. Since then civil wars have been incessant-until the recent proclamation of the Chinese Nationalist State-and, in the opinion...