Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of Sokols in their flashing uniforms-shirts of Garibaldi red, grey Czech jackets slung from their left shoulders, little round red caps with falcon feathers-last week poured into Prague's big, bustling Masaryk and Wilson (named after Woodrow Wilson) railway stations, stomped out to the mammoth Masaryk Stadium,* high above the silvery Vltava River and the cathedral towers of the capital. There, in white jerseys and blue trousers and skirts, they twisted and bent in mass exercise. Before the month is over, 160,000 members will have participated in such elaborate drills...
...Yugoslavia and Rumania are gravitating closer to the Rome-Berlin axis, French Rightists openly predict that France will never come to the little nation's aid and even French Socialists and Radical Socialists are lukewarm to the pledge. The effectiveness of Russian assistance, weakened by purges in the Red Army and by internal conditions, is a large unknown. However, what Bismarck said about Bohemia still holds, and if Czechoslovakia's allies might not come to the aid of Czechoslovakia, they might come to the aid of democracy and Europe...
When Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail was hired to run the Brooklyn Dodgers last winter, the baseball world, with good reason, expected him to pull rabbits from the baseball cap of the Brooklyn club. With a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, Larry MacPhail had in three years yanked the Cincinnati Reds out of a decade of doldrums by painting the ball park orange, introducing girl ushers decked in what he called lounging pajamas, starting a Red farm system and inaugurating night baseball. Brooklyn sat up in its seats...
...Jersey semi-pro teams), nor the fact that he had played the role of "the typical American boy" in a movie short, nor the fact that he had struck out 295 batters two years ago during the twelve weeks he was pitching for the Durham Bulls (a Red farm)-for an average of 12.33 Per nine-inning game-and was voted the No. 1 minor leaguer of the year. They were not concerned by the fact that he had won six games in a row this season (in which he allowed only three runs), and was leading the league...
...Atlantic's grey mists one overcast afternoon last week emerged a snug, grey-hulled motorship with red, white and blue striping on her two buff funnels, gay bunting flapping from her halyards. She was the 18,673-ton Oslofjord, new $3,000,000 flagship of the Norwegian America Line, on her maiden voyage to the land Norse Leif Ericson previewed some 938 years earlier. Leif the Lucky's 75-foot ship was a Viking man-o'-war with a single candy-striped sail and places for 35 men. The 588-foot Oslofjord is a businesslike luxury liner...