Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instantly Premier Mussolini despatched a Red Cross detachment of two officers and ten soldiers to aid the rescue work at Durazzo...
...seemed serene. Premier Ahmed Zogu of Albania transmitted official thanks for the Italian Red Cross aid. Then suddenly the press of Vienna and Belgrade blazed with ugly charges: 1) that the Albanian "earthquake" had not been recorded on the seismographs at Vienna and Belgrade; 2) that the only mention of the quake had been in Italian not Albanian papers; 3) that the "Red Cross" detachment was actually a group of Italian military strategists smuggled in to prepare a coup which would make Ahmed Zogu King of Albania and pave the way for an Italian attack on Jugoslavia through Albania...
...richness. The "Titian" was once owned by Efrem Zimbalist. The "Viola Mac Donald" was born in 1701. "La Belle Blondine," the cello that was heard in Spain, was bundled off in silks and felts to the U. S. in return for a fabulous sum of money. The fourth, a "Red" Stradivari, was just recently released from a physician's care; its tone wanted strengthening. For these four fiddles Mr. Warburg paid $200,000. It is not for antiquity this sum has been paid. It is for workmanship. After 200 years, they are still the work of a hand that...
...Kansas City, Mo. But the mayor read aloud what I had written, including my endorsement of President Clarence Cook Little's (University of Michigan) plan to minimize the importance of college football by having rival universities prepare two teams apiece. Let them be called, for example, the Red team and the Blue. Let only Red meet Red and Blue meet Blue, a game at each college on the same day, 'thus making it unnecessary for students to leave their own school to witness a football game...
...quiet irony and bathos. Brother Alphonse and Brother Guido quarrel in the garden; a dream reconciles them. They argue of a prehistoric monster; the Father Superior sends them to the circus, which they miss through absentmindedness, forgetting their monster with their destination. Not by grace but by slices of red beef does Brother Exuper tame the fearsome mastiff. The monument achieved by Brother Giles, after unseemly longing, is his huge foot print in a new cellar floor. By such simple means is the essence of a faith distilled, not for the saints but for the love...