Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course with such a difference in weight, the champion was not risking his title. But he freely and voluntarily entered the ring at Madison Square Garden with the 190-pounder, Johnny Risko, in consideration of a part of the $62,000 of gate receipts collected from Theodore Roosevelt, Red Grange, Charley Hoff and 11,669 others...
Died. General Alexei Alexeivitch Brussilov, 70, perhaps the most brilliant strategist of the former Imperial Russian Army, in 1916 very nearly successful in outmaneuvering Ludendorff on the southern Russian front, after the Russian Revolution a commander in the Red Army, at all times rated as a superb cavalry leader; at Moscow, of inflammation of the lungs...
...once a favorite of the Emperor Nicholas and went over to the Reds only when his army was disintegrating about him because of bolshevist propaganda. One of his sons died in the Red Army and another in the White Army which attempted to overthrow the Soviet regime. At the time of his death he was drawing a pension of $150 (about 29 chervonetz) a month from the Soviets...
...waters of the Rhine closed over the fateful Ring; swaggering Siegfried, murdered, burned on a giant pyre, Brünnhilde with him; Walhalla flamed red in the sky and, greed punished, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, fell last week on the first performance of the season of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung, stupendous finale of the Nibelungen Ring, fifth of the Wagner matinees. Nanny Larsen-Todsen, recovering from an illness, sang the difficlut music of Brünnhilde, creditably. Michael Bohmen, big bass also billed as "indisposed," was sinister, impressive, magnificent; Friedrich Schorr, superb as Gunther; Rudolph...
...months, terms. There was no money to send him to college and his father tried to cure the boy's fever for yarning. But even in a Birmingham brassworks he jotted notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains. Once he had to climb up through a 120-foot chimney on a bet and fight a man when he came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery...