Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After each major act of Joseph Stalin's regime, a vast cheering throng swells into the Red Square, carrying aloft on long poles horrid caricatures of the enemies of Bolshevism, handsome likenesses of its Dictator. At 15° below zero last week, thousands of prospective demonstrators stood shuffling, stamping and blowing on their hands in narrow side streets and alleys adjoining the Kremlin Fortress in which J. Stalin lives, and the Red Square. They were all ready to march in and cheer as soon as the Soviet Supreme Court should hand down its batch of death sentences...
...Soviet archcriminal, guiltiest of the Old Bolsheviks on trial, was "That Monkey" Radek, depicted horribly grimacing and malevolent on the placards which the Moscow crowds were about to shoulder in the Red Square, shouting exultation that Karl Radek was to be put to death. Up to about four months ago, Comrade Radek lived in an elaborate penthouse, atop a new Bolshevik skyscraper, and was honored as the No. 1 journalist of the Communist world, writing daily in Stalin's official newsorgan Izvestia. That Radek should have confessed to high treason and blanket "Trotskyist" conspiracy against the Soviet Fatherland...
...everyone such things as "the worst betrayer since Judas Iscariot"-the betrayer of Stalin? However, Communists are the world's most disciplined Party. With almost no grumbling, the Radek placards were discarded, the caricatures of other Old Bolsheviks doomed to Death raised high, and shouting, cheering into the Red Square swarmed the marchers...
...greatest advance made by either side since Madrid settled down to bloody siege (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) came last week when the defending Red Militia swarmed over the West Park in Madrid's northwest section, where the Whites had strongly entrenched themselves. This followed after three days of downpour had sent millions of gallons roaring down the Guadarrama and Manzanares Rivers, which overflowed into the White trenches. Gun carriages sank into seas of mud. Dripping wet and nipped by freezing cold, the White troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco withdrew to higher ground, surrendering the waterlogged region...
...offensive against Valencia, the seaport to which the Madrid Cabinet long since fled (TIME, Nov. 16). Spunky General José Miaja, defender of Spain's erstwhile Capital, was holding out ably last week, issuing such proclamations as "The people of Madrid will eat their shoes before they surrender!" Red beans were what Madrid was mostly eating and General Miaja was cajoling all women to join the 250,000 who have fled Madrid. Every departing mouth meant more beans for his Militia...