Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authors of Red, Hot and Blue may have slipped, but the performers manage to hold the altitude of their past achievements. As "Nails" Duquesne, a rough female diamond who thinks that a man with two wives is committing bigotry, Ethel Merman lifts a brazen voice, rolls a comic eye. Roly-poly Bob Hope (Roberta} is coyly engaging as the young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior...
...throatful of smoke from the flares of red fire that were burning on the driveway and excused himself. Back to the dining room he went with his sons Franklin Jr. and John, to enjoy the job of tabulating his masterpiece...
...About 9 p. m. the Florists' Telegraph Association sent in a six-foot composition sunflower as tribute to his "Americanism." "Come on, Theo," cried he to Mrs. Landon, "let's get our picture took while we still have a chance." Theo Landon was brave, too. A big, red-white-&-blue "Landon Victory Cake" lay untouched on the sideboard. "Maybe," said she as the returns kept coming in, "just maybe we've waited too long to cut it. But however it turns out," she continued, eyeing her husband, "I'm proud...
...Under his two resounding rebukes from the electorate, Red-baiting, Roosevelt-hating Publisher McCormick went down unyielding, unrelenting. Said the Tribune's lead election story: "More Socialists and Communists voted for Mr. Roosevelt than for their own candidates. . . .Thus was established the 'popular front' against capitalism planned by the Communists and other radicals to serve until the Farmer-Labor Party absorbs the Democratic Party and becomes the major opposition to the Republican Party in 1940, according to the plan promulgated from Moscow...
...week to the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph...