Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor ones through the interior. Once he dined all Russia's important Commissars and their wives, ending the night's festivities with a showing of the cinema Naughty Marietta. Another time he wound up the season's social program with a dinner for three rarely dined Red Army marshals...
...ground-floor hallway of the east wing of the White House hangs a large portrait of Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, showing her in a red gown and an aloof expression, with a white dog at her feet. The work of 65-year-old Howard Chandler Christy, it has the characteristics that have made him the most commercially successful U. S. artist, the painter of such celebrities as Mussolini, William Randolph Hearst, James Farley, Chief Justice Hughes, Vice President Garner...
...sponsored a resolution commissioning Mr. Christy to paint a picture called The Signing of the Constitution for $35,000, Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts protested: "I do not want to pose as an art critic . . . but I have seen Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission." Other Congressmen, quite willing to pose as art critics, called Mr. Christy the greatest living portrait painter, panned his portrait of the late Speaker Rainey, called one of his paintings a "garish nightmare," said...
Having blazed a brilliant path of victory to its training quarters at Red Top, an undefeated Crimson eight is smoothing out rough edges for the final four-mile grind against Yale. When it annexed the mythical sprint championship of the East after beating Navy, no other crew in Harvard's racing history had realized its potentialities as well as Captain Spike Chace's Varsity eight under the patient and critical eye of Coach Tom Bolles...
...building is 188 feet long, 66 feet wide, and 40 feet in wall height. The exterior will be finished with brick, and the roof will be covered with red slates taken from the old Hemenway and will be surmounted by a lantern carrying the weathervane of the former building...