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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Red Hair", the offering which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan, had as its first shot a color photo of Clara Bow feeding fish to a tired pelican. The point wasn't wholly clear to us at the moment, but just a little more of Clara Bow made the allegory oh, so clear. Elinor Glyn wrote it, Clara Bow acts in it, and there you are. Bubbles McCoy (and you can go ahead and guess who in Hollywood would play a part with a name like that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing...

Author: By C. D. W., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

...from Washington, Pa.: "Totally blind since she was less than a year old, 13-year-old Mary Grabowsky, second daughter of Walter Grabowsky, a poor miner of Coal Center, this county, walked out of the Washington Hospital today, scarcely able to conceal her delight and asking officers of the Red Cross to hurry her home that she might see her mother for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Made to See | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Filled with pity, and remembering his Master's art, a Catholic priest, by taking the girl to the Red Cross, enabled this Mary to see. Great miracle among great miracles was again brought to pass, this time by mundane skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Made to See | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

John Broadus Watson, famed psychologist, speaking before the first National Conference on Character Education in Schools held in Manhattan last week, cast a red hot coal into the family circle. Said he: "I am arguing for a complete rotation of mothers and a complete rotation of nurses. I don't know how long it takes for conditions of familiarity to grow up between children and father and mother. That point can be determined experimentally. I think it is not longer than two or three weeks, anyway. Therefore, I should never let a mother handle her child longer than three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Three-Week Parents | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

National Lead Co. ("Dutch Boy" white-lead, red-lead)-$4,929,396. Previous year: $9,004,567. Explained Pres. Edward J. Cornish enigmatically: "Serious competition had developed between lead and other metals in lines where lead has for centuries enjoyed deserved prestige, and especially between different pigments used for the same purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: More Earnings | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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