Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When vigilant conservatives denounce "The Red Menace of Moscow!" they commonly have in mind (however vaguely or ignorantly) the Communist organization for world propaganda which is famed and dreaded as the "Third Internationale" but is actually named the Third International Association of Workingmen. Last week the Communist party of the U. S. sent to Moscow as delegates to the sixth conference of the Third Internationale, Comrade John Pepper & Comrade John Loveday. A total of 50 nations were represented. Cheers rose all round Comrade Loveday, when he cried: "A free proletarian state will arise in the U. S. on the ruins...
Acting as Chairman of the "Red Menace" last week, and preserving strictest order was Comrade Nikolai Bukharin. Today he is right-hand henchman to Dictator of Soviet Russia Josef Stalin, many of whose speeches he is believed to write. Pounding for order in parliamentary fashion, Chairman Bukharin announced the following agenda of subjects for discussion: 1) Reiteration of the program of world revolution. 2) Encouragement of Communism in nationalist China and India. 3) Defensive measures against the wars being planned by Capitalism. 4) Encouragement of revolt movements in all colonies held by imperialistic powers. 5) Inspection of the condition...
...yellowish-white product of whale oil known as spermaceti is at the base of most creams, most lipsticks. Vegetable dyes provide the color. The beet is a common source of red coloring, as is the European plant alkanet, and cochineal, crushed from the dried bodies of the female Coccus Cacti, a Mexican and Central American beetle with a fondness for cactus. Plants and insects yield carminic acid. Aniline will make lipstick indelible; benzoin makes it kissproof...
Most makers claim a base of rice for their powders. But many a woman hides a red nose with much the same chalk dust that her grandmother used. Her grandmother went to the drugstore, bought chalk drops and crushed them herself. Now she could choose between a multiplicity of powders, scented, exotically labeled, but not far different from the - chalk-drops...
...FLIGHTS UP-Mary Roberts Rine-hart-Doubleday Doran ($2.) Connoisseurs of mystery stories-a great many of both have cropped up in the last decade -prefer them undiluted with the tender passion. Though Author Rinehart knows how to write a mystery story (The Amazing Interlude, The Red Lamp), and her sons* know how to publish them, she indulges in dilution to the extent of a new volume self-labelled "a love story-with just enough mystery." Mystery connoisseurs will be disappointed. Love-storyites will find in Holly a spineless heroine, in Warrington a blundering hero in spite of his burly...