Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Family Loss. The homes, tools, livestock, furniture, etc., destroyed in Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut, appeared to total somewhere between $7,000,000 and $10,000,000. (Figures for Massachusetts were not yet complete.) Secretary Hoover recommended that, as in the past, this phase of rehabilitation be left to the Red Cross...
...Story: In recent months one customer out of every five who has bought a Corona Portable typewriter (L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.) has bought a colored Corona Portable.*He purchases either a scarlet, a maroon, a green, a blue, a cream & gold, or a lavender & gold. Red is men's choice. Ivory and lavender are unpopular. Scarlet is popular. English & U. S. society women now have typewriters that do not suggest "business." Of the colored typewriters sold to date: 22 % are Scarlet 17 % are Maroon 18 % are Blue 13 % are Lavender 18 % are Green 12 % are Ivory...
Back from Europe came Mary Garden. For ship's reporters in Manhattan she described her own costume: "A blood-red dress with ruffles, and don't forget the ruffles-a hat to match, the usual sable coat and approximately seven bracelets." She turned the talk to Lindbergh...
...RED SKY AT MORNING-Margaret Kennedy-Doubleday, Page...
...more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against the less irregular pattern of the Frobishers outweighs and hides their unreality. The glow of "red sky at morning, shepherds' warning," pervades the pages of the book, rising to a sultry heat at noon, and sinking to the destined thunderstorm at the end of the short astonishing day. Never attaining the complete objectivity that is the property of most great writing, Author Kennedy balances her characters...