Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orator "Red" Robinson is slender and dapper. Dullards who judge by appearances alone might take him for a dancing man, a talkative "cake-eater."* Than which nothing could be more misguided. He is a state champion pole-vaulter, a college basketball captain of all-Western calibre. When they heard he had won the oratorical title, his college mates rushed to prepare a demonstration at the railroad station. He had joined the distinguished roster of national intercollegiate eloquence champions, a roster including an author, a bishop, a governor, senators (including the late LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many...
Cocky little boats with pale sails, maneuvering this way and that on quiet water like a fleet of river butterflies, swerved at the sound of a gun and passed between a committee yacht and a red buoy, putting out of Larchmont harbor into Long Island Sound. They were the interclub sloops (Marconi-rigged yachts, 19½ feet on the water line), the new racing boats; and their appearance meant that the yacht-racing season had begun again in Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas...
...sunset if daylight-saving had not turned it into midafternoon, the boats moved out; Penn was in front, Yale next, Columbia last. A mile went by. Was a Yale crew going to be beaten? The coxswain did not think so; he put his hand in his pocket, produced a red handkerchief and waved it, once; the Yale shell went up; Yale men leaned shrieking out of observation cars, danced wildly on the float as the boats crossed the line-Yale, Penn, Columbia. The prophets had been right...
...made Connaught O'brien with dusky hair and slender perfections and a strong but quiet tongue, and Dermot McDermot honorable, sure in his saddle and loved by dogs-of which there are many about-terriers, deerhounds, foxhound packs and puppies, and the red setter Rory. He wrote the love-making of these two as a slow, certain thing of wry humor and restrained ecstasy, and, as the Irish are, a little...
...choir of hounds. There is a mighty steeplechase with the bookies hawking odds, the hoofs thundering and two poor jocks killed. There is lambing-time, on the spring hills thinly lit with frost and starlight; and coursing the whippets after Pussy, the dodging hare; and benign old gentlemen in red coats "hacking bitterly at small white balls and saying very evil phrases...