Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ferdinand de Lesseps, successively overcoming the obstacles provided by the climate, Napoleon III, his love for the Empress Eugénie (Loretta Young), his sense of responsibility toward a towheaded waif (Annabella), and the apathy of the British Government, in order to dig his big ditch from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean...
...title of "world's most famous musician" belonged to a shockheaded Pole named Ignace Jan Paderewski. Flame-haired Virtuoso Paderewski was the greatest pianist of his time and one of its most lionized personalities. Women swooned at his concerts, pursued him to beg a lock of his long red-gold hair. Kings and cabbageheads applauded him. Even among people who never went near a concert hall "Paderoosky" was a name to conjure with...
...winner of third prize ($500), seemed a stiff bit of social consciousness greatly damaged by the fumbling inclusion of Washington, D.C. In the U.S. section of 102 paintings, critics found as great or greater pleasure in Bernard Karfiol's big, soft Summer; John Marin's Sea with-Red Sky, a small canvas with a whipped cream lather of white paint which at 60 feet carried a spacious sense of foaming ocean...
...Viking warrior* or Norse tradesman, equipped with his sword, shield and ax, took ship with his companions, set sail westward across the North Atlantic. They probably made land, avoiding icebergs, at southwestern Greenland, which had been discovered by Gunnbjorn and settled in 985-86 A.D, by Eric the Red...
...heating facilities from the second floor of his Bronxville, N.Y. home because he believes people should sleep in cold rooms. As economist, he attended the famous dinner at which Dr. William A. Wirt later said he had heard that Roosevelt was a U.S. Kerensky and that a flock of Reds were waiting to take over the Government; then, with a series of 25? and 50? pamphlets (Brass Tacks, Uncommon Sense, Waste), of which he has sold over 1,000,000 copies, he proved himself a persuasive, new-fangled economist, but no Red. At present he works for the National Resources...