Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fatal trip to Alaska, he changed to the B. & O.?allegedly because the Pennsylvania had failed to meet his wishes in a certain labor controversy. Since then, the B. & O. has had the Presidential patronage. Daniel Willard, President of the railway, put a basket of roses (red) and delphiniums (blue) in Mrs. Coolidge's drawing room...
...return the King's salutes and the Queen's bows. Dense crowds lined the streets from the Piazza Colonna, down the Corso Umberto, through the Piazza del Popolo to the Quirinal square. The most touching scene of the procession was when 50 surviving Garibaldi veterans, wearing their red shirts and led by Ezio Garibaldi, grandson of the Patriot, marched past the grandson of Vittorio Emanuele II whom they had helped to make King of United Italy. Emotional Italians on all sides broke down, sobbed; others raised thunderclaps of cheers; mothers lifted their babies...
...evening in Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 12), returned to the hamlet of Bakersfield, Calif. His traveling appointments and haberdashery were in perfect taste. In the local opera house, he lifted the voice that had made the gallery-ghouls of the Metropolitan beat their palms red and had thrilled the tympana of the Diamond Horseshoe-Striving to please, Baritone Tibbett continued his concert three-quarters of an hour overtime. "I gave my best," he said. Bakersfield bankers and merchants agreed that his tone was pleasant, his diction creditable...
...Book of Mormon, a surprising document "translated" by one Joseph Smith Jr. from cryptic gold plates evangelically supplied out of a New York hillside called Cumorah. Therein it was set forth that two tribes had shipped direct to America from the Tower of Babel. The presence of Red Indians in America "proved" this. Joseph Smith Jr. had been commissioned the Lord's special and prophetic latter-day representative to re-establish Mor- monism...
...Red Top, Conn., June 12.--More favorable conditions than existed yesterday permitted the Junior University boat and the Freshman to race today and the Combination crew to have a time trial...