Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 100 members of the House of Delegates, supreme A. M. A. body, met in extraordinary session with 400 officials of local medical organizations in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House. Purpose: consideration of the proposed Federal health program. Dr. Harrison H. Shoulders of Nashville, Tenn., speaker of the House, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville, Ky., president of the Association, and Dr. Rock Sleyster of Wauwatosa, Wis., president-elect, exhorted the delegates. All three opposed "political control," reiterated the A. M. A.'s desire to "benefit the people." Said President Abell, referring...
...verb is the engine that makes the sentence go. Sentences have stop and go signals: a capital letter at the beginning is a green light; a dash, comma, semicolon or colon is a yellow light to make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game: a row of pupils, each representing a part of speech, stands before a blackboard holding sheets of white paper over their heads...
...largest small businessmen invited by Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper to a Conference of Little Business in Washington last February was DeWitt McKinley Emery-6 ft. 6 in. When that conference became a circus it made red-headed Mr. Emery very angry. Two months previously he had conceived on his own idea of a national conference of small businessmen, had sent out from his Akron, Ohio stationery plant a form letter to other little men which began: "The sheriff is about to get my business. How's yours?" He attended the Washington shenanigans, was disgusted, decided...
Announcement of Hicks's appointment in April caused a furore in Boston papers and in the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard was denounced for hiring a "Red" and encouraging "subversive influences." According to Hicks, he has belonged to the Communist party for over two years. He considers Earl Browder, its leader, "a great deal more intelligent and competent than any other political leader that I can think...
...first Freshmen. The site of this earliest college building, now covered by Massachusetts Avenue, is in front of the west end of Wigglesworth Hall. Its foundations were uncovered when the Cambridge subway was excavated, and their corners are marked in the street paving by two L-shaped rows of red brick. Behind the house, in the former cow-yard, which as early as 1638 was called the College Yard, Professor Eaton set out apple trees, and surrounded them by a high fence to exclude the neighbors' cows and keep the Freshmen...