Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these many years there has been a feeling of rivalry between the Harvard Lampoon and the CRIMSON. The origin of friendly ill feeling lies in the shadows of the past but the legend mentions a bright red fire engine which wrecked havoc with the CRIMSON at one time. There have been other manifestations extending to the realm of sports which have led the CRIMSON even to unfortunate falsifications within its columns of baseball scores to the ridiculous figures of twenty-three to two. The CRIMSON's position in these affairs it must be admitted has been unfortunate. Within its limited...
...University fencing team went down to defeat before the University of Pennsylvania swordsmen by the close score of 9 to 8, Saturday at Philadelphia. The last bout in the sabres was the deciding event, and it took a clean sweep in the sabres for the red and blue foilsmen...
...oath required of a Jugoslav premier. It was high time that this be done. The country, premierless for more than a fortnight, was growing restive. While the politicians quarreled, conditions bordering upon famine had grown so acute in the Jugoslav districts of Herzegovina and Montenegro that the International Red Cross was reported to be starting famine relief measures which should certainly have been undertaken long ago by the Jugoslav Government...
...Royal & Presidential party swept up from the station and through the Brandenburg Gate, a crowd of some 30,000 saw with amazement that the last motor in the procession was bright red and driven by Friedrick Wilhelm, onetime German Crown Prince & Crown Prince of Prussia. Uninvited, he had merrily slipped up behind. Prudent, he soon turned down a side street amid scattered cheers and more booes...
...Dutch, about as Dutch as the Stock Exchange is Greek: a burgomaster's mansion, not the temple of a relentless cult. The quiet winding stretches of South William Street have just enough of Amsterdam's canals to make the visiting Dutch rubber trader homesick. The dark-red bricks are so well woven together, the boxes of flowers on the window ledges are so neatly kept, the whole place is so clean-it is a bit of Holland low-country snuggling at the base of Manhattan peaks...