Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valet, and Inspectors Walter Dew and Victor White, his Scotland Yard attendants, may well have been surprised to hear the cannonading and bugle-blowing that went up as their chief, self-styled "missionary of peace," detrained in Washington to find a full-dress military reception. Green, Blue, Red. After visiting the British Embassy and pausing about 75 minutes, part of the motorcade reformed and the Prime Minister was taken to the President. He waited in the Green Room while Ambassador Howard went in to see the President in the Blue Room. Then Sir Esme came back, fetched James Ramsay MacDonald...
...more than the net income of the first six months of 1928 when the total annual net earnings were $11,068,618 or $6.15 a share. His business, still increasing, has tripled since 1920. He spends an average of $4,000,000 dollars a year on advertising. Red-cheeked, dewlapped and genial, given to exercise, to backslapping, to the indulgence of strange whims that usually turn out to be investments, and fond of uttering pungent aphorisms on salesmanship, of gravely handing new acquaintances packages of his gum, a supply of which he carries around with him at all times, William...
Eight o'clock on the evening of Moving Day found 300,000 pilgrims gathered under the red-leaved maples of the sacred grove. A slender bamboo fence surrounded both old temple and new. Guards in medieval armor were stationed along the line with fire torches flaring against the evening sky. Another fence inside the old temple surrounded the mirror. Just outside this fence stood grizzled Yuko Hamaguchi, Prime Minister of Japan, his Cabinet and members of the official party. Inside the fence in the temple stood Prince Kuni, Imperial Messenger, and the High Priest with his assistants. The High...
...insignia recommended by the council would consist of red numerals on a black background to be worn on a white sweater with no letters to signify what division of the minor sports the athlete has represented. The minor sports "H" which consists of the same colors was adopted by the Student Council last year and has been adopted in many other colleges throughout the country recently...
...Student Council retains $700 for its own overhead and running expenses, and as $750 is being given to the Harvard Band for the Michigan trip, $2550 remains for distribution among benevolent institutions. It has already been decided to give $1,000 to the Red Cross and $500 to the Salvation Army, he bequests to the Cambridge Boy Scouts and the Committee on Friendly Relations among. Foreign Students awaiting the consultation of the Budget Committee with the newly-formed P. B. H. advisory group...