Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys who comprise the gangs have to undergo rigorous initiations before being qualified for membership. In one of the more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
Respectable Brooklynites grew vexed at the slurs which the Crime Commission made on the Red Hook children. Said a priest of the neighborhood: "When I look at these beautiful innocent little children, so quiet and nice in manner, I have a feeling that they are entirely too gentle and soft for the rough world that awaits them...
...open to the public without discrimination at a 20 pfennig fare (5c). Many a proletarian grumbled because the onetime third-class fare had been only 15 pfennigs. Many an aristocrat was vexed to be crowded into third-class cars with wooden benches, while pushful workingmen reclined on first-class red velvet. All, however, were elated with civic pride at another feature of the new service: the one-class fare ticket is valid not only on the subway but permits transfer to busses, street cars-at no extra cost...
...attack, three Britishers were wounded in the exchange. In another part of the International .Settlement, two British Punjabi soldiers were killed, ten wounded, in a short clash. In Moscow as news came that Shanghai, "stronghold of imperialism" had fallen, thousands of jubilant workers tramped the streets waving red flags and singing the "Internationale...
...gong rings; Mike staggers to his corner, weary, bleeding. Through the ropes springs Mike's marcelled second with water-bucket, sponge, bottle, towel. Mike rests for a short minute while motherly hands wash red from his eyes and mouth, fan his wilting torso. Mike hears calm, sage advice delivered in a motherly tone. Again the gong rings and Mike's second, agile in spite of skirts, leaps back through the ropes. Mike, cheered, comforted, charges forth to battle...