Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ebbecke of Bonn pointed put that, contrary to vulgar belief, white hands might be warm, red hands cold. Temperature depends upon the amount of blood in circulation. Tint depends upon the location of the capillaries through which the blood seeps...
...history is the history of professional football from its beginnings on various sandlots long ago to its sudden rise to eminence behind the weaving hips of Harold ("Red") Grange. Men took money for playing football before there were any "professionals." There were no professionals because there were no amateurs. One does not speak of a professional plumber. One does not point out as exceptional a boilermaker who accepts money for his labors. And the first professional football players were plumbers, boilermakers, who received wages simultaneously for their plumbing, their boiler-making, and their playing. Factories had their teams, mill towns...
...have taken this job ... to help preserve high-class football as it is played in colleges . . . a clean, red-blooded sport . . . great character-builder...
...alcohol. To health, technical experience and adroitness he lays his war feats (126 enemy planes) and safety in civilian aviation. Last week. Pilot Callizo, altitude champion (TIME, Sept. 6), declared that while training for his heart-taxing ascents he cuts out tobacco as well as liquor, but includes "good red wine...
Engaged. W. Maretta Singer, daughter of Paris Singer of Paris, granddaughter of Isaac Singer, the original sewing machine potentate; to Sir Reginald Leeds, Baronet, of "Red Roofs," Cheltenham, England...