Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impressive disturbances . . . such as the Vienna riots of last summer," when some 100 Austrians were killed and the Ministry of Justice was burned (TIME, July 27). Even this potent disturbance, stormed Comrade Rykov, had been partially bungled. Secondly the agents were ordered to work for a general liaison between Red Cells so that these may form an international Communist force in time of war. The Red Army of Soviet Russia cannot, admitted Chairman Rykov, attack the Capitalist powers of Europe with immediate prospect of success. Finally the agents were cautioned not to convey instructions to the Cells by circulars "which...
When U. S. Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur was confronted with the statement that ten "Red Cells" exist among U. S. tars and marines, he smugly said...
That the brilliant red blood in the arteries is exactly the same as the dark blue blood of the veins, the difference in color being due to difference in gas content. That there is no to and fro undulation, but a constant circuit of blood from the heart, through the distant parts of the body, back to the heart...
...Horn), but she treats him as peasant swine. One night, he accidentally falls asleep in her boudoir and is degraded and cast into prison for his ungentlemanly mistake. The prison gives Mr. Barrymore an opportunity to put on the grease paints and a beard, to look horribly woebegone. The Red Revolution releases him from prison and he becomes a peasant dictator. He refuses to be a party to the execution of the haughty daughter, runs away with her to the Austrian frontier, while the audience discovers that she loved him all along. ... All of which goes to show that...
...within the buildings of the neighborhood grey-faced clerks squealed instructions at each other; boys with skins like cellar-grown mushrooms pattered to and fro; nervous bookkeepers scratched names of stocks and bond issues along blue cross lines, drew pothooks down between red and green lines. Theirs was the moil of days, nights* and holidays caused by 3 and 4 million share days...