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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power plant for the purpose of restoring it and supplying power for the pumps in the mines. The strikers got wind of the move and, 800 strong, marched to the plant. A pitched battle ensued. The police fired. A miner named Davis fell dead. The crowd, maddened, "saw red," charged. The police fled, but not before they had been pummeled, mauled, kicked, clubbed and otherwise battered. The maintenance men successfully effected their escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Nova Scotia | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...Monarchy motion in the Reichstag to substitute for the black-red-gold republican flag the old black-white-red colors of Imperial Germany was rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Old Flag | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...technique, the exact opposite of Jenufa (TIME, Dec. 15), his first opera, written 25 years ago. Jenufa was realism-a Czech Wirklichkeit; this work is phantasy. It tells the story of a fox-no histrionic creature, in whose caperings those of humanity are derisively reflected, but a sharp red beast out of the fen. Captured by a woodcutter, he bites a baby, kills a cock, runs away to the woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild, red, sly', as the little fox-has been misled by a rogue who, meeting the fox in the woods, destroys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Prague | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...have to do 'is take a glance at this title, imagine a handsome cinema actor in a red uniform "getting his man," picture the close-up of a lovely lady whose wave has survived even a train wreck. There you have it, no worse, no better, than usual. In fact, quite the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 22, 1925 | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...opponent, for Champion Dempsey envisages little difficulty in defeating the blushing young Marine. But there is another pugilist-one whose either hand is like a demijohn, whose chest protrudes as if he had fed on thunderbolts. This fighter (Harry Wills), with sweat in his face and a red rose in his buttonhole, was introduced to the Manhattan multitude before the Tunney-Gibbons fight began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tunney vs. Gibbons | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

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