Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restlessness broke out in Ohio, too. At St. Clairsville, police hunted for "Red Head Carrie" Cressi, aged 18, for leading a crew of older termagants to hurl bricks at the Crabapple Mine, injuring Superintendent Tom Willis. But "Red Head Carrie" had fled home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues...
...severest tests on Saturday evening, February 25. For when the University track team meets its two traditional foes, Cornell and Dartmouth, in the tenth Triangular meet in the Arena, it will bear the responsibility of maintaining the impressive row of successive victories chalked up against the Red and White and the Green invaders...
Boston is cautious about its entertainment, but its inhabitants came in fashionable crowds to see the whites of Miss Garden's eyes rolling about with passion, pleasure or dismay. As Fanny Legrand, in a devil-red gown, they saw her gobble up the heart of innocent Jean Gaussin. With ill-disguised delight, they saw her track this peasant boy to his lodgings and take up residence therein...
Died. Hugh Ambrose ("Hughey") Jennings, 58, famed, friendly, freckled, red-haired shortstop, onetime manager of the Baltimore Orioles, the Detroit Tigers (when they won three pennants in 1907, 1908, 1909) and field manager of the New York Giants; of meningitis; at his home in Scranton...
...England in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the manufacture of cotton goods was a comparatively simple matter. Nearly every town of any importance had its red brick factory owned by a thrifty Yankee who combined the qualities of feudal lord, social mogul, town benefactor. His employees admired him, had simple wants, were content with frugal wages. Raw cotton from the slave states was cheap and plentiful. The New England mills had a virtual monopoly of U. S. textile manufactures. The thrifty Yankee prospered, passed his factory down from generation to generation. The Civil War upset many a factory...