Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naples. In a small phial in a Catholic chapel in Naples abides a red substance which all the faithful recognize as the congealed blood of St. Januarius. Twice a year the clotted mass dissolves-usually in May and September. Last week Crown Prince Humbert appeared in Naples for a day. The blood dissolved. Newspapers printed extras. The populace saw heavenly favor for the Prince...
...Sunday school magazine. These, turned off at the rate of seven a day, permitted him to live in New Orleans, Cuba, Europe, Philadelphia. About 1918 he sold a story to Adventure and at once went home to become a novelist, which he speedily and notably did with Birthright, Fombombo, Red Sand. He is a sociologist only by indirection, an artist by accident. He is humorous. He dislikes work. Sound physically, he writes in an invalid's chair, between frequent naps...
...Mass.). The young ladies performed a pageant adapted from The Faerie Queen,* that poetic conceit of a "sweet wit and pretty invention" which young Edmund Spenser wrote to flatter Queen Elizabeth while he was helping to pacify her province of Ireland. Miss Lorraine Keck galloped right nobly as the Red Cross Knight to rescue pretty Helen Howard (Una) from the unspeakable machinations of Ivy Trace (Archimago) and her vicious minions. "Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound," the college musicians rendering appropriate strains from Meyerbeer, Gounod, Arens, Liszt or Wagner...
According to the statement of the Red Book Committee last night the 1929 edition promises to be a decided financial success. The book, which is the largest ever published, also contains an unusually large amount of advertising...
...Red Books will reach Cambridge Thursday night and be ready for distribution on Friday. The janitor's room in either Gore or Standish Hall will be taken over for the delivery of books to subscribers during the day and then a large number of copies will go on sale at the Jubilee that night. A novelty which the Committee has instituted this year is the engraving of the names of certain subscribers in their books. The name of each member of the Freshman Executive Committee, the Red Book Committee, and the Dormitory Committees will be engraved in gold letters...