Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, Born in Timmonsville, S. C. in 1903, the son of a tobacco planter, Melvin Purvis has had a more exceptional career than he makes out in his book. Slight (127 lb.), wiry, red-haired and superstitious, he studied law at the University of South Carolina, practiced for two years, went to Washington in 1927 seeking a post in the State Department, got one in the Bureau of Investigation. He chased automobile thieves in Texas and worked in Cincinnati and Oklahoma City before the Dillinger case put him in headlines. Unmarried, he collects biographies, has a pet cocker spaniel, shoots...
Aaron Kane was born on an island off Shelter Point, Cape Cod, a well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed...
...more so. She moved into his apartment, scandalized his family by behaving like an adventuress, contrived to become corespondent in not one divorce suit but two. By this time, Grant's repressions were as thoroughly shattered as her own and the secret of Caroline Adams identity had made red-ink headlines in the Lynnfield Bugle. When Theodora returned there, she found Grant and a brass band. For cinema patrons who like rollicking farce, Theodora Goes Wild amounts to a feast. It begins rollicking in Reel One, rollicks faster and more furiously from there on. Most rollicking shot: the wife...
...money will not go to Spanish Red Cross but directly to the assistance of Government supporters running guns...
Blue jerseys and red jerseys arms around shoulders, a half-fledged snakedance on the field, hats waving in "Bright College Years". Hours to get out of the Bowl, hours to get back to the Taft. Gloomy cocktails...