Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victory. Soviet troops had advanced more than 200 miles into China's great Northern Province of Manchuria on two fronts (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week there should have been bonfires, triumphant parades, lusty bellowing of the Internationale in Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat...
...Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio. The Shanghai Council of the Nationalist Party passed a resolution of censure demanding his resignation, stigmatized him as "a rogue." His one chance lay in shrieking so vociferously about the "red menace" that the great powers would intervene...
Other Coolidge pets: Do-Funny, trained troupial, tweaker of ears; Old Bill, thrush; Peter Pan, first Coolidge dog; Paul Pry, half-brother of President Harding's famed Laddie Boy; Rob Roy, Wisconsin sheepherding collie who disliked the White House elevator, who stole dainties from the Red Room tea table and was ever to be seen at the President's side. One Thanksgiving Rebecca, raccoon, was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President...
...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...
...former is the logical-method of reaching every voter; but it has opposed to it the extra time required, a slight additional expense, and the important matter of intelligent voting, which is doubtless aided by the presence of candidates photographs at a more accessible place than in the Red Books in the rooms of 600 Seniors. In any case, this method deserves trial, though it is probably too late for the present committee to employ...