Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came the army to Hungerford. On the outskirts of that town a red cavalcade was seen approaching. The King's troops? Or friendly "Bolshies?" Whether to scatter or march proudly on? Closer and closer came the horsemen. Ah, there were women among them! Evidently a friendly "red" demonstration. The army "snapped into it" and the straggling columns of fours were straightened out, arms swung martially, heads were held proudly up and smiles of anticipation lit the men's faces. Then the whole spectacle was reduced to pathos, for the oncoming horsemen and women were scarlet-coated hunters pursuing...
...prisoners appeared healthy and little the worse for their experiences. The two men had beards a month old and both were clad in Moorish dress, their own clothes having been confiscated by the brigands. M. Steeg disported a flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater. M. Maillet was garbed in a coarse white tunic and velvet breeches. The two small Arnaud girls were literally covered with vermin and also dressed in Moorish costume. They stopped crying when familiar French voices soothed them, but asked repeatedly for their mamma and papa. Baroness...
...recognition of his services his body was encased in a red coffin and taken to the Foreign Commissariat, where it lay in state, despite the fact that M. Joffe, close and good friend of Lev (Leon) Davidovitch Trotsky, was a member of the opposition group...
General Alexandru Averescu, onetime (1920-22; 1926-27) Prime Minister, who helped to defend M. Manoilescue, testified that the late King Ferdinand saw Prince Carol in Paris last year and attempted to persuade him to abandon Magda Lupescu, his red-haired mistress, and conduct himself as the court wished. The Prince seemed willing, but made conditions. Whereupon the King angrily cried: "It is not for you to make conditions "but for me, the King, to do so!" Embittered at his son's attitude, the ailing Monarch returned to Bucharest. Soon afterwards, however, he admitted to General Averescu that Prince...
...Morgan & Co. and onetime newspaper correspondent for the Associated Press in London, Tokyo, Peking and Manila, war correspondent during Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, Boxer Uprising and Russo-Japanese War, onetime (1908-13) Editor of the Manila Times, personal assistant (1917) to Chairman Henry P. Davison of the American Red Cross War Council, Civilian Aide (1918) to General John Joseph Pershing; to Miss Cornelia Cousins; in Manhattan. General Pershing was best man. In 1905 Mr. Egan married in Yokohama, Eleanor Franklin, famed war correspondent for Leslie's Weekly. She died...