Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Governor rode in a carriage beside a Governor. Red-coated foot guards made a guard of honor. Cavalry, an additional protection, pranced in the parade. A State Capitol was reached. The Lieutenant Governor entered. The Legislature had just declared him elected for two years as Governor of the State. He took the oath of office. He delivered a very long inaugural address-9,000 words. That evening, a great ball was given for him in the armory of the foot guards. He stayed up late. Next morning early, he rose, went to Capitol, tendered to the Secretary of State...
...night of Feb. 7 that Tschoudnovsky, accompanied by Red soldiers, went to the prison to inform the captives of their immediate execution. Admiral Kolchak was in his cell, fully dressed under a fur coat, and wearing a Cossack hat. He was expecting rescue at the hands of White forces under General Kappel, who was not far distant...
...week was to be spent mainly in securing recruits to the Bolshevik ranks. Lenin's jet-black tomb in Red Square, Moscow, was to be visited by all true Bolshies, and everywhere was to be proclaimed the principles for which the dead Red leader lived and died...
Germans awoke one fine morning to find that all the mail boxes had been painted white and red-the Polish national colors. The Danzig authorities protested, stating that Poland was permitted postal sovereignty only within the Polish postoffice. The protest fell upon deaf ears. The next night, Germans repainted the mail boxes black, white and red-the old colors of Imperial Germany. Poles, angered, demanded an apology. No apology was given; the authorities instead asked the League for a ruling...
...Betty Compson) married to simple senility (Theodore Roberts) falls in love with a young and handsome hero (Theodor von Eltiz). This happens by the side of a trout stream in romantic circumstances that just escape being obvious. From the viewpoint of technique the story gets worse and worse. A red-hot flatiron sets fire to the house at midnight, and, as if this were not ridiculous enough, the young lovers, saying protracted good-byes in the lady's bedroom, persist in arguing as the flames sweep around them. There is the usual insipid ending-divorce and the marriage...