Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind absorbs more quickly what is thrown on a screen than what the individual reads in the little red school book," DeMille said...
...Tech boy, the feminine voice said. Naw, Harvard, growled a deep basso, the owner of which the Junior instantly disliked. Howja know? she asked. His hat, he replied. The Junior's cars became red. Say, his hat's worse'n yours--that don't mean nothing, she said. The Junior squirmed and tried to look around without turning his head. Peasants! It was his best...
...blood-stained, professorial axe of mid-year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall...
Liberal Governor George Howard Earle's hand-picked chairman of Pennsylvania's cinema censorship board is Peggy Palmer, whose late husband A. Mitchell Palmer, as U. S. Attorney General, was the greatest Red-baiter of his day. In a hearing of an appeal against the board's banning of the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy, Mrs. Palmer last week showed her particolors. Her testimony: "The acting was the most magnificent I have seen since I've been on the board. ... I don't like Communism, so the picture is not the type I want...
Supplementary to his main theme of disillusionment are random bits of history, thumbnail sketches of military dictators whom he interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped convict from Devil's Island who murdered his peg-legged fellow fugitive, used the wooden leg to cook him with...