Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kilmarnock Red Label...
...Midst the war's great curse stands the Red Cross Nurse She's the rose of no man's land."- -WAR BALLAD...
...Mississippi River can be controlled if a bold and proper engineering plan is developed." Concerning present conditions in the flood area, Mr. Hoover said that of 700,000 persons flooded, all but 20,000 had returned to their homes, although 150,000 still were being fed by the Red Cross. He said that there were 2,000,000 acres in which lost crops had been replanted and that "we hope the majority of this acreage was planted early enough to secure a full crop." But he also said that 1,500,000 acres have been under water so long that...
Purposeful, he tore through the gale at 100 miles an hour?finally sighting and circling over Ocotal. "Click" went the small, simple mechanism of his bomb release. Far below, masses of men became suddenly red, formless and conglomerate. Within half an hour a flock of black vultures were coasting down through the hot, cruel...
...green buckram," marshaling perhaps 2,000 mourners. The Super-Reporter noted "an old wattled hinterland peasant with gold earrings. . . . The pathetic mourning of the very poor?ragged arm bands made from black petticoats. . . ." He described the 60 coffins at the grey stone gates "under the splendor of flowers, red banners and black streamers." He let Novelist Lewis spill drops of irony on the "oozing" funeral orations: ". . . such measured, useful and reasonable words . . . uttered by bearded and clever men?all of it like a nice debating society...