Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curran and the red-faced rage of Martin Dies, New Orleans police asked Washington police to hold Witness McCuistion, charging that he had had a hand in beating and shooting to death a Curranite last September. Chairman Dies roared that it was a dirty union trick, called upon the U. S. Department of Justice to protect Witness McCuistion. The suggestion that New Orleans police had worked hand-in-hand with a C. I. O. union to discredit the committee amused profane, posy-wearing Chief of Detectives Johnnie Grosch. In New Orleans, he recalled his prowess at hounding...
...inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is cluttered by a very unmilitary hobby-scores of canaries and red sparrows in pretty cages. Premier Abe drinks a little but not much, smokes a little but not much, exercises a little but not much. He is a general, but he has never been...
...general was the resentment against her that anti-Semitic manifestoes called her "This red-haired witch," screamed: "Into the fire with this Jewish wolf, Lupescu." Mild-mannered former Premier Maniu was moved to explode...
...three drops of blood are taken from a finger or an ear lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked...
When the Earl of Essex returns from sinking the Spanish fleet, spitfiery, red-wigged Elizabeth rewards him with a majestic slap in front of the delighted court. It seems he should have brought back the Spanish bullion ships intact. In Ireland, where he gets himself sent, Essex is defeated when court enemies intercept his pleas for aid. He returns to start a little rebellion of his own. Though Elizabeth loves Essex, she loves her throne more, prudently chops off his head...