Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President let it be known that he did not think architects need worry over alteration of the White House. The only real French Empire room, the Blue Room, will not be altered. But the Red Room and the Green Room, fitted mostly with nondescript furniture, will receive some colonial pieces...
...Tichmenev, Secretary of the Bolshevik Embassy, was on hand to receive the Presidential party in the absence of Ambassador Leonid Krassin in Russia. Instead of waiting for the formal introduction and then showing the President the assembled collection of Red art, M. Tichmenev rushed him to a plush-covered table on which were four glasses of champagne...
...public and spurn humanity, did not preclude certain trifling investigation of the tenderer emotions. One such investigation?attempted in 1918 with Mildred Harris?ended in a divorce. She charged that he starved her, got drunk, hit hard. To down the scurrile rumor that he had been seared by the red-hot lips of Actress Pola Negri, he last year married (in Mexico) his leading lady, Lita Grey, aged...
Among the 60-odd patrons of 60-odd Roman churches who wear, throughout the world, the red and the rank of Cardinals of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, there are always some whose eminence is peculiarly conspicuous. The present generation dimly recollects Manning of England, vividly recalls Gibbons of Baltimore, still boasts Mercier of Belgium and him whose country is his church, Merry Cardinal...
Once Merry del Val was a young man, brilliant, resourceful. Once even Cardinal del Val was a young cardinal- for he received his red hat at the age of 37, soon after he had returned to Rome from a shockingly successful embassy to Canada and just after he had published his Truth of the Papal Claims...