Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When Mr. Harris was buried, nearly every man, woman and child in his county came to drop a flower on his red clay grave. Replace such a man by a city clerk awaiting every morning a circular letter or his master's voice out of a loud speaker's horn? God forbid...
...banks in Nebraska must contribute one tenth of one per cent of their average deposits per year, to be used to pay depositors a share of their losses in State banks that fail. So many Nebraska banks have failed that the fund is now $20,000,000 in the red. A special assessment against State banks to replenish the Guaranty Fund has been declared confiscatory by lower courts, is now on appeal to the Supreme Court...
...spleen is a ductless lymphatic-like gland touching the top of the left kidney. It manufactures white blood cells and, when necessary, red blood cells. Its removal does not cause serious consequences...
...thought to hang over the Harvard campus. Gentility, to the average American, suggests a lot of sissies: it is quite incompatible with physical prowess. So it is natural that the sports writers should pick Yale, where the boys are supposed to have hair on their chests and to eat red meat. The New York World
...largest contribution, $1000, will be made to the Red Cross. $250 will be given to the Cambridge Council of the Boy Scouts of America, $250 to the Salvation Army, and a like amount to the Near East Relief. The Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students will receive $500, as will the International Student Service for student work in Bulgaria...