Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although such a program may seem utterly "red" and "radical" to U. S. eyes, it is quite daringly "conservative" when viewed at Moscow from the standpoint of such fiery Opposition leaders as Messrs. Gregory Zinoviev and Leon Trotzky. These gentry proclaim with sincerity and zeal the necessity of at once throwing the whole might of Soviet Russia behind the Chinese revolution. Indeed M. Zinoviev goes even further and demands that every possible effort be made to launch "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...British "Red Scare" (TIME, May 23, et seq.). Few disinterested persons will deny that both of these "perils" are proving very useful to the governments concerned, and are being kept alive for reasons of internal politics. Naturally, then M. Stalin made a great many charges last week against the British Government which seemed to most Anglo-Saxons mere balderdash. For example, Dictator Stalin declared flatly: "The British Government is financing terrorist spies who commit arson and murder throughout the Soviet Union...
...Whether in the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas it may replace Rumanian oil has nothing to do with the question. That argument belongs to the red herring class unless Vacuum Oil Co. believes (which she does not) that because the Vacuum or the Standard of New York have decided to give (in their trade) Russian oil a preference over Rumanian oil, the Rumanian producers are going to curtail their production...
...most popular young men in the U. S. began to visit around the country, at first in very grown-up long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...
...urchin and a policeman in comic argument. He noted "sombre men with the blessed Red Cross on their arms," with stretchers ready for emergencies, which soon arose. "A youth of fine features and clear eyes" went suddenly mad, presumably with grief. "He bellowed horribly. He stretched his hands like the claws of a leopard and leaped upon one of the guards, screaming." They carried him off. The crowd followed the coffins...