Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their elders gathered in St. Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided by the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) in the U. S. Labor was WPA. The sculptor, who claimed to be the first to use stainless steel as a sculptural...
Many U. S. music schools (e.g., Curtis, Juilliard, Eastman) maintain their own student orchestras. Yet, when new graduates of these schools try to get jobs with first-rate orchestras, they are generally turned away for lack of experience. In 1920, a red-headed teacher of music theory named Franklin Robinson finally realized that, because of this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony...
...gilded trappings hung from above, no canvas masonry affronted the eye of the 1937 realist. The play, up-to-date in dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The high loft, emptied of its scenery, lent itself to a grotesque play of light and shadow. Below, on a bare stage platform graded down toward the audience by three steps, the Mercury Theatre players enacted a sinister tragedy of dictatorship...
...distinguished from measles is scarlet fever, whose rash is bright yellow-red and which gives a strawberry color to the tongue. Scarlet fever rash rarely touches the face. The rash of German measles, a mild disease, is rose-red, or brown...
...well known: first, congested, watery eyes, sensitive to light; at the same time, or a few hours later, an acute cold, sneezing, running nose, harsh cough. Within 24 to 48 hours the special signs of measles appear on the inside surfaces of the cheeks and lips. These are bright red spots with minute bluish-white centres. On the fourth day of the attack, bluish red spots appear behind the ears, at the border of the hair, at the temples, at the back of the neck, and spread over the entire body. The rash usually lasts four days...