Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...celebrates its millennial (1,000th anniversary) next year. The U. S. Congress has received an invitation to attend the ceremony, through the Danish Minister.* Last week the house of Representatives accepted the invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would...
...Once the Champagne was a wine-growing land. Red and white wines grew there, wines of charming tint. . . . But when in 1670 the sinister cellarer of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, Dom Perignon, as baneful a man as the monk Schwartz, inventor of gunpowder, created explosive wine and fiendishly invented the skullduggery by which the honest wines of Champagne became the favorite drink of debauchees, at one blow he ruined the honor of his country and made it prosperous...
...blinding heat, a French army patrol wound deep into the Atlas Mountains last week. Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...
...showing of Coach Brown's men depends wholly on the improvement they have made since encamping in their Red Top quarters. There are but few of even the most optimistic Crimson backers who believe that that advance is sufficient to bring victory...
...generous gifts from alumni who have made possible Soldiers Field, the Baseball Cage, Newell Boat House, Hemenway Gymnasium, the facilities at Red Top, and more recently the new indoor athletic building, the Harvard Athletic Association is most grateful...