Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism, or simply LIFE. Before admiring parents and friends a drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart military precision the graduating class deployed, reformed ranks, ran through a series...
...played hooky continuously to drink red wine with plasterers and ditchdiggers...
Stanchest of Fingard backers became the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk and Berkshire, daughter of the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Also stanch is Lieut.-General Sir Harold Ben Fawcus.K.C.B.,C.B..C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.B., D.P.H.. Director- General of the British Red Cross, one-time Director-General of the Army Medical Services. These and others just as influential got King George V's ear, got him to order the Duke-Fingard Treatment investigated officially. Whatever its merits or demerits, now decided Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood's men, the Treatment did not require Mr. Fingard...
Precisely what the 1936-37 shortage will be is anybody's guess. Natives were still busy in Africa last week harvesting the pods of the cacao tree. Shaped like a football and nearly as big, the yellow or red pods are tossed into heaps by the cutters, who return to slice them open, scoop out the cocoa beans and pile them in boxes or wrappings of plantain leaf for a week's fermentation. They are then dried brown, either in kilns or in the sun, and sacked. Many an Accra tribesman has toted two 60 lb. "headloads...
...going back because I prefer American working conditions. I am getting on in years and when the weather is bad and I am feeling ill, I appreciate the privilege of staying away from my laboratory without resorting to a lot of unpleasant red tape to get official permission...