Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtue of authority vested in me by act of Congress approved August 1, 1914 . . . ," the President put the ports of Newark and Perth Amboy, N. J., under the authority of the Port of New York, thus eliminating much interstate red-tape...
...hand fights in Sofia, of assassinations, plunderings and terrorism in the Provinces, of ugly skirmishes on the Greek and Serbian borders. More than 1,000 persons were arrested in Sofia. House to house searches were made. Martial law was proclaimed. Some 400 Bolsheviki were summarily executed. A quantity of Red revolutionary evidence was found. Central Europe was alarmed...
...Italy, a perfect cavern-chapel to Mithras, Persian god of light, was found in Santa Maria di Capua. Some 100 other Mithraic shrines had been known in Italy, but none so complete as this. Frescos presented Mithras as a strong youth, in brilliant red tunic with green cuffs and gold fringe, sacrificing a white bull with red nostrils beneath a blue, star-studded...
...Arizona, an expedition sent by Edward L. Doheny, oil man, found pictures of dinosaurs, American elephants, prehistoric deer and men, scratched in the "desert varnish" (black iron scale) on a vertical, red sandstone canon wall...
Samuel Merwin, More Stately Mansions. Editor Karl E. Harriman. Red Book...