Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Romans awaited the Amir in a city decked with the bright, Italian tricolor: red, white, green. Came the chuffing special from Naples, bearing the sombre banner of Afghanistan: black, but worked in silver with the arms of the Amir. Soon Amanullah, the "Peace of God," descended majestically from his salon...
CUPS, WANDS AND SWORDS?Helen Simpson?Knopf ($2.50). The plot of this novel bears so exact a resemblance to the plot of Red Sky at Morning, most recent work of Author Margaret Kennedy, that, had the two books not been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot about plagiarism. These are the likenesses: both books are about mixed twins of dangerous heredity, who keep company with fashionable, questionable artists, who feel for each other a more than normally intense devotion; in both books the girl twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case...
...Louis and the Nungesser-Coli. They waited while their pilots were shaking hands in Panama. Col. Lindbergh (resting for several days) greeted with the most energetic approval Frenchmen Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, first airmen to fly the South Atlantic. (TIME, Oct. 24.) Panama City displayed the triple red white and blues of France, of Panama, of the U. S. Unwearied by the recent outburst of welcome to the northern flyer Panamans sang, cheered, banqueted the adventurers from the East and South...
...story, "My Heart And My Flesh," will therefore only enhance an already established reputation. It is an extremely creditable enhancement, however, and will suffer, and then slightly, only when compared with its predecessor. It fulfils the promise of "The Time Of Man" much more successfully than Miss Kennedy's "Red Sky At Morning" fulfils the splendor of "The Constant Nymph...
...appropriately, this book on "Old Boston Taverns" issued by Butterfield's Bookshop on Bromfield street, has come to our attention. From its many illustrations and anecdotes, you can learn of long forgotten Red Lions, Greyhounds, Cromwell's Heads, and Green Dragons of Boston. A map, too, marks their sites. But do not try to seek them out. For with the recent demolition of the Sun Tavern and the Three Mariners the last of Boston's old taverns have gone. Now their place is taken by Waldorf Lunches, Chain cigar shops, and five-and-ten cent stores. And the taverns...