Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the World War, Dr. Peabody was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Relief Corps, later being made a major in the medical corps of the United States Army. He was a member of the Red Cross Commission to Rumania in 1917, and one of his more recent honors, bestowed upon him while he was ill, was membership in the board of scientific directors of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...whiteness challenges a comparison with the others. This piece, a portrait of Galli-Curci, is well done in a realistic manner, where the surface has been minutely worked. How much more interesting and daring is the other painted and laquered wood representation of the prima donna. Here a brilliant red comb above dark hair, and crimson lips suggest the sparkle of the stage. The marble version gives us her features as an individual, while the colored wood by a bold generalization shows us the singer and heroine...
...book is not a novel, but simply a story of the expedition. Between 1910 and the appearance of "Galleons Reach" Tomlinson wrote "Old Junk", "London River", "Waiting for Daylight", "Under the Red Ensign", and "Gifts of Fortune". Many of these were written Dicken's wise,--as sketches which Tomlinson prepared as a journalist for weekly publication. Such is the reputed origin of "Old Junk" and "Waiting for Daylight...
...Such blocks are dried in the air or in a warm draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they are burned hard and useful. Their red color is the result of iron in the clay and sand. White bricks come of lime added to a specially prepared clay. Various...
...most fictional characters, remains wisely unquoted in the book though it is accepted by a Manhattan publisher, in whose office Eden meets Alayne Archer. When he takes her back to Jalna, sweet old Adeline pats her "with a hand not so much caressing as appraising. She raised her heavy red eyebrows to the lace edging of her cap and commented with an arch grin: 'A bonny body. Well covered but not too plump. Slender, but not skinny. Meg's too plump. Pheasant's skinny. You're just right for a bride. Eh, my dear...