Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Wargrave, referring to the Premier, described him as the "stan- dard-bearer of the white flag during the War and the red flag after...
...afternoon of Oct. 16, 1781, was cloudy. The sun sank sullen and red. With the night, came winds and rain. Stretched in a semicircle about Yorktown, American troops under General Washington lay in their earthworks, some putting back into service the guns of two redoubts that had been captured and spiked by a British assault under Lieutenant Colonel Abercrombie in the forenoon but recovered later in a counterassault. About 300 yards away lay the British, in the inner circle of Yorktown's earthwork defenses. In the town, Lord Charles Cornwallis took counsel with his officers. North of them...
...South. In Canton, where Dr. Sun holds precarious sway, days of street-fighting, between his so-called "Red Army" composed of la- borers, and the "Merchant Fascists," terminated in a disastrous defeat for the latter. As a result of the fighting, a large section of Canton was destroyed by fire, causing damage to the extent of $7,000,000. The position of Dr. Sun was obscure...
...brave cheerfulness of Mrs. Amorest for solace and protection. Years ago, Miss Beringer had had six months of perfect happiness. That was the period of her friendship with Jane, the greatest and loveliest thing in her life. All that remained to her of Jane now was a piece of red amber?a gift which she cherished above all else in the world...
...house in Virginia. In front of it, as the week went on, a thousand horses paraded, galloped, caracoled ? black and grey, hunter and hackney, carriage-horse and teamster. There were innumerable classes ; many times the judges clipped a blue rosette to a moist cheek-strap, many times a red, but only a few of the thousand that put their hoofs down so neatly into the tanbark ever came to wear one of those rosettes, and those few often. Notable in that thin company were...