Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then he returned from New Orleans. He had laid low one Patrick Ryan in seven blood-red rounds. He, the "Strong Boy of Boston," was champion heavyweight pugilist...
...very character of syncopation altered. Ragtime molted; Jazz, that Klaxon-throated Phoenix, rose from the ashes of untold night-club cigarets; the Blues crept on sly haunches out of the red-light alleys of Memphis, goose-fleshed the U.S. with the Macabre, demoniac plainsong of generations of junketing cats...
Last week, thousands trooped to Donskoi-this time to the Cathedral, where the bright yellows of Claudio's frescos, the Titian-red of ikons, the jeweled lamps broke the darkness. Upon a catafalque near the altar was laid a dead and gorgeous prelate, a mitre on his head, silks and satins about his body-his white hands stretched out. The thousands sobbed and groaned while priest after priest intoned the sacred words which Dr. Tikhon could not hear...
...moderate liberalism eventually clashed with the absolutism of Lenin-Trotzky; and, in 1922, when the latter decreed the confiscation of all church property, Patriarch Tikhon was thrown into jail for his opposition. The Red (Living) Church was promptly convened to unfrock him. Early in 1923, a Roman Catholic monsignor was beheaded. Tikhon, awaiting trial, prepared for the same fate. But Lenin halted. Tikhon signed a retraction and was freed...
Invisible Light. Certain dyes and pigments possess the property of becoming more visible when exposed to the invisible infra-red rays of the spectrum. This fact was utilized for experiments in flash-signal communication that was invisible to any one but the receiver of a message. The receiver was equipped with a tinted shade for his field glasses similar to the shade used in the signal lamp. Application of this phenomenon to airplane camouflage, theatrical scenery and detection of forgeries was elaborated.?Dr. Robert W. Wood, Johns Hopkins University...