Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justice Stone has just finished building a red brick house a block away from Chief Justice Taft's on Wyoming Avenue. To insure getting everything he wanted within it, he drew the contract for its construction himself...
...limousine for Royalty's town use is a Daimler Double-Six in deep red with scarlet hairline trim. The twelve-cylinder engine is of the "Knight," or sleeve-valve type, and the cost of the chassis alone exceeds $9,000. Until last week Their Majesties used a 1924 Daimler of exactly similar color...
...goldilock delicacy of Vivian Martin, oldtime cinema ingenue, fails to redeem the bromides which she has to deliver in her cracked little voice. All three acts are set in a modernistic cottage, so turbulently red and orange that it resembles the façade of a Coney Island rollercoaster. This play had a run of 18 weeks in Chicago as Companionate Marriage...
...spectators gathered around Philadelphia's Franklin Field, it was exciting to see pompadoured, red-shirted George Simpson of Ohio State equal the world's100-yard dash record?9? sec.* In Des Moines four lean-legged youths named Trimble, Burkhardt, Rogers and Sentman, leaped over high hurdles for 480 yds. in shuttle relay, in world's record time of 1 min. 2 3 10 sec. Also in Des Moines, West Pointer Carl Jark, with mighty ventral effort, sailed his discus 158 ft., 3 in., another record...
...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...