Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Injunctions. Vice President Matthew Woll, with his thick black hair bristling defiance of any and all who would stand in the way of trade unionism and its weapon, the strike, stepped upon the speakers' platform, urged trade unionists to scoff at injunctions "like red-blooded men whose rights are invaded...
...question of British Labor's "going Red" seemed once more definitely remote as the conference refused to debate affiliation with the British Communist Party by a "card vote...
...Chinese Red Cross proceeded speedily to bury 3,000 citizens of Wuchang who died of starvation during the siege. Contrary to rumor, the foreign population was found to have suffered no war casualties or deaths by starvation. Within the week Wuchang pulsed once more with normal industry, dozed behind its ancient walls...
...paper, oblong, square, three-cornered, printed in faded colors, smudged with ink marks, none of them bigger than a square inch or so, none of them very beautiful, and none of them the least use in the world. Such rubbish, said a woman with an umbrella, eyeing disdainfully a red and black oblong all by itself in a glass case ten times too large for it, such rubbish might as well be burned, and better. She turned away and, crossing a large white granite hall, found a taxi that would take her away as quickly as possible from the Grand...
...some months now Carnegie Hall has stood on its Manhattan corner red and warm and shabby, a little ashamed, it seemed, to be caught staying in town during the summer. Last week it raised its head to oldtime haughtiness, threw open its doors, spilled its lights onto Fifty-seventh street, stood proud again, important, among the young upstarts that tower head and shoulders above it. It was the occasion of the first Philharmonic concert, the 2086th in the history of the Philharmonic Society, the 85th season...