Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles G. Dawes took train for Minnesota. He spoke at Rochester, Zumbrota, Red Wing, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Anoka, St. Cloud,* Lake City, Wabasha, Winona (all in Minnesota), La Crosse, Sparta, New Lisbon, Portage, Madison, Stoughton, Janesville, Bardwell (in Wisconsin). Nearly all these speeches, made in three arduous days, were delivered from the rear platform. Typical remarks...
...latest 'bogey man' is that around every corner is stationed a 'Red' or a 'Bolshevik' with a bomb in his hand to blow up the Constitution of the United States unless General Dawes and his associates are called forth to defend...
...homestretch that these are but the first evidences of the feelings which all Americans long to show to you." Said the Daily Worker, bitter sheetlet of Chicago Communists: "Thousands of morons are gathering at Maywood, where the fliers will land, in order to get a glimpse at the red-blooded American pioneers. Special trains will be run and there will be more excitement in Chicago, than if the news had come that the King of Afghanistan had married the Queen of Sheba. . . . "When the airmen recover they will attend the reception of the bigwigs that has been arranged...
...manager, his tact and magnetism won him a sobriquet from the press: "The Peerless Leader." Four times he led the Chicago Cubs to victory in the National League; twice won the World's Series. Later, he managed none too successfully the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox. Last spring, he was scheduled to manage the Chicago White Sox, but retired because of illness, leaving the task to his faithful lieutenant, Johnny Evers...
...comes at all; yet there is a fundamental difference between such imitation as Mr. La Farge's where there seems to be a desire to express sincere experience, and that of this story, where the manner is made predominant by overdecoration with factitious similes and by stage tricks of red lights and booming guns in the distance...