Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, the President went swimming in the glass-enclosed pool, drove over the red-clay Georgia roads in a brand-new Ford touring car (license: FDR). In Gainesville, he took his first ride in one of the new cars which he will henceforth use when exhibiting himself to crowds . Specially built 16-cylinder, nine-passenger Cadillacs, they have handles on the windshield for Secret Service men, a stock of tear gas bombs in a compartment behind the driver's seat. Floor space behind the compartment contains plenty of room for the President to lie down in, in case...
...French masses are not easily aroused but soon some 18,000 workers in five factories of Citroën Motors ("The Ford Of France") went on a sit-down strike and, without stating specific grievances, hoisted red flags. While they continued to sit, quarter-hour sympathy sit-downs were staged at the Farman, Caudron and other vital French warplane factories. All this was extremely peaceable, without riots or even the summoning of police, but everyone remembered that in 1936 over 1,000,000 workers walked out as a means of: 1) pressing the first Popular Front Cabinet of Premier...
...nothing from being dramatized. As a picture of genteel rapacity, Whiteoaks does nothing in three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says is remarkably witty...
Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...
...Todd's conclusion in regard to the less savory pastimes was that the "red lights burn brightest in deteriorated or neglected neighborhoods,"* that the cure is not moral indignation, nor character education, but better living conditions...