Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street are prone to think of the Socialist nebula as a misty organism of a more or less reddish hue, with parties and particles, creeds, organs, persons and programs whirling round & round, and getting nowhere except in Soviet Russia, which is east of Europe and therefore does not count. Red footstools, red neckties, intentionally crude cartoons, stuffy parlors and garrets, late hours, morose arguments, "long-haired men and short-haired women," dirty fingernails and a strange courage, are among the peculiar properties of Socialism...
Could a political spectrograph of the U. S. be made to help the man-in-the-street classify his more prominent fellow citizens as to political color, from the "true Blue" of J. P. Morgan to the bright "Red" of the late Sacco & Vanzetti...
...woman had no business to attempt such a flight. It was perfectly ridiculous to read of this young person's chatter, of her preparations for the event?her vanity bag, Chinese ring, knickers, black and red four-in-hand tie and pastel-shaded band over dark brown hair?and to remember that she was going to risk her life just to gratify her stupid vanity...
Arrival. A small & bulgy man stepped of the S.S. Rotterdam in Manhattan last week, faced a battery of cameras, obligingly revealed a shock of springy red hair, grinned far into his freckled cheeks and quickly left the pier. No customs officers molested his baggage, no questions were asked, for he was Josef Willem Mengelberg,* high man in Holland, come once more with diplomatic passport to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Pressmen followed him, asked hurriedly of concerts abroad, of his villa in Switzerland (with its five subcellars), learned that he had held seance with Conductor Arturo Toscanini at Lake...
...imposing British Embassy on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, with its magnificent double, red-carpeted staircase and historic portraits, Sir Esme William Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., and Lady Isabella Howard† gave the first ball of the season...