Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheap imported articles to illustrate arguments on foreign cost, duty, selling price. In 1922 an elaborate display was set before the Senate when John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) Senator from Mississippi, entered the chamber in an absent-minded mood. He fondled a large cloth monkey with a red tail. He wiggled a cuckoo clock so roughly that it crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella, a bird cage, salad bowls. Asked Senator Barkley of Kentucky: "By what authority have Kresge and Woolworth moved into...
...private soldier in a shiny blue serge suit stood in the House of Lords last week and, grinning, plumped himself down on the woolsack, the oblong red cushion. traditional seat of the Lord Chancellor of Britain, and, next to the throne, the most honorable sit-spot in the empire...
...State, New York University, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, and perhaps Maine. Penn has shown itself to have one of the strongest teams in the East by its recent victory in a quadruple meet, the scores of which were Penn 21, Cornell 51, Columbia 57, Dartmouth 81. In this meet, the Red and Blue runners took first, second, fifth, sixth, and seventh places...
...Harvard football coaches was discussing the possibilities of "Red" Barrett's team on the way to the Michigan game...
...bundles of five or six (original value 65? to 7?). Bidding at the first sale was lively, 40? or 50? a bundle, then fell away to 20?. Magazines sold: Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal, Field & Stream, Motion Picture, American, True Story, Detective Story, Red Book, Home Beautiful, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazar, Arts & Decoration...