Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceremony was simple, so simple in fact that the monarch and his entourage entered the building by a side door. There were no red carpet, no flowers, no decorations on the Palace, no brilliant uniforms; King, Dictator, Delegates were all dressed in sombre morning attire. The only splash of color was supplied by the Princes of the Church in their Cardinal red. This drab setting was to emphasize the fact that the Assembly is a working body and not a fountain of useless rhetoric...
...forgotten Maler Ludwig Koch, painter of horses, were shamed by able polo expert for the New York World, Peter Vischer.* Expert Vischer listened to the old artist speaking of the days, long before the War, when he had lived in Vienna, ridden through misted bridle paths with noblemen in red coats and silver spurs, painted Lippiza and Kladrub, horses of the Emperor Franz Josef. Then Expert Vischer looked at some of the paintings. Always admired first by horsemen, then by artists who saw the anatomical precision, the speed and effort of the running horses, the Academician composition and texture...
...tremendous number of the proletariat are commanding thirteen dollars a day for laying red brick on top of another as the erection of the new $1,000,000 library nears completion. The structure is at the north end of the campus, and is the most imposing and expensive of Dartmouth's buildings. The million dollars was forth-coming from George F. Baker, the New York philanthropist, who contributed towards the Harvard Business School. The work is going on steadily, the superstructure being almost complete. Parts of the library will be ready for occupancy at the close of the present semester...
...under a vast system of flood-lights to complete the exterior of a new dormitory before the snow makes its annual appearance in Hanover. The dormitory is located west of Hitchcock, on Tuck Drive, where all future expansion of the College will take place. This structure is also of red brick, and will accomodate approximately...
...laws of man and nature is that Boston's antecedents are too puritanical in the unfavorable sense, to permit even the abundance of professorships to counteract its influence. The blue laws are as yet of too deep a hue to be dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...