Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave him what approximated a state banquet in Berlin. Doors and windows were left open so that the public might gaze once more upon some of the oldtime heraldry of Imperial Germany. The hall blazed with medals and the bright colors of bygone dress uniforms ? the blue and red of the infantry, the blue and gold of the navy, the white, green, black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks, his dry, jockeylike figure erect as ever despite its years. The long-necked, chinless...
...patriotic-imperialistic demonstrations switched to gay reunion of fellow officers as the wines ran rich and red and military bands started to play the half barbaric, half mystic Prussian Army marches. The crowds in the streets outside the hall waited up late to watch their old-time heroes depart. Among those not present, because of his present status as chief officer of the German Republic, was the high commander of all the Imperial German Armies, General Paul von Hindenburg. But next day, tacitly applauding the evening's celebration of good old Kultur, 82-year-old President Hindenburg...
...these Ks have resulted in such deals as the purchase of the White Star Line (from Morgan interests in 1926), the Elder Demster Line (West Africa), the Union Castle Line (South Africa)*. Other K orders have resulted in fast steamers, improved service, mechanical-innovation. Today the Royal Mail's red ensign flies over a fleet of some 2,600,000 tons ?one-sixth of the British merchant marine, the greatest fleet in the world...
Shorter hours, longer pay, group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment-such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions...
...Crimson Circle, a highly efficient criminal organization, piles murder on mysterious murder until all London is terrorized. Scotland Yard, as usual, gets it in the neck, but this time gives as good as it gets. Author Wallace strews his text with clues, but he is also an adept with red herrings. When the villain is finally unmasked, there is more than one gasp in the audience...