Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that they are obviously reminiscenses and true stories with only a light coat of fiction and that some of them were written for Collier's and Red Book Magazine, makes it possible to judge them not as creative literary efforts...
...York Americans: a hockey game against the World Champion Detroit Red Wings, 3-to-1; in which 40-year-old Ivan ("Ching") Johnson, recently given his unconditional release after eleven years as star defenseman of the New York Rangers, made his debut in an American uniform, showed flashes of his old, brutal form, thrilled a cheering crowd of 12,000; in Manhattan's Madison Square garden...
...over there is frequently the devil to pay. For as often as not World's Fairs result in thumping deficits.* Last week, World Fair planners the world around had reason to ponder this fact, for one World's Fair (Paris) closed for the winter thumpingly in the red, and two others (New York and San Francisco) passed milestones in careers which they expect to turn out in equally thumping profits...
...show, however, had one crisis. From among 75 black, blue, red, chocolate, cinnamon, silver, champagne, fawn, and agouti-colored rats & mice, and from 150 white, blue-cream, smoke, red tabby, and tortoise-shell cats, a Siamese named Marvella and a fancy rat named Minnie were chosen to appear together in an amicable picture. When Cat Marvella reached out a tentative paw of friendship. Rat Minnie flew into a huff, sank her sharp teeth into the paw. Marvella whimpered, withdrew her foot...
...fact that such poisonous chemicals as lead arsenate and sulphur dioxide are widely used to preserve fruits, the former to protect apples from the ravages of insects, and the latter in the drying of certain fruits such as apricots and plums. Meat is also treated chemically to preserve its red color. Many may applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think of deliberately and knowingly placing these preservative poisons into his digestive system. Nevertheless, this is what is done every...