Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...celebration in Windsor when the royal motorcade drove through High Street. Pinafored schoolchildren waved flags and screamed excitedly. The merry housewives of Windsor showered rose petals on King George's sober limousine. At the foot of Queen Victoria's statue stood the black-robed mayor and red-robed Town Councilors...
...fortress, and a prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars filled in and forgotten...
...Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning and Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick proceeded that evening to the former's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There theocrat and minister watched 2,000 trained nurses march up the aisle and take their rustling seats. Many a nurse wore the Red Cross uniform of crisp white dress and redlined blue cape. It indicated both that she had been graduated from a high school and that she had taken special courses in war nursing. Most of those at the Cathedral had served in the World War, a few in the Spanish-American...
...also marks the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies by the late great Henry Pomeroy Davison. Red Cross work is the outgrowth of Florence Nightingale's nursing British soldiers during England's Crimean War against Russia and of the Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant's description of suffering in the battle of Solferino (1859). Formal organization of war nursing began at Geneva in 1864. During the World War, such nursing was well organized. Perhaps most efficient was the American Red Cross which Davison headed. In May, 1919, he persuaded England, France, Italy and Japan to join...
...Seattle, Count George Hay du Barry invented a red and white signal flag for distressed motorists. On one side appears the legend STALLED! SEND TIRE MAN; on the other SEND MECHANIC, PLEASE! HAVE A HEART!! For no other wayside dilemma has: Count du Barry prepared flags...