Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets could be herded indoors, the skies were raining shrapnel. Over 125 were killed, including 70 children playing in the grounds of a schoolhouse. Three Bombs fell on the Plaza del Callao, Madrid press district. To add to the Radical Government's misery, batches of terrified Red Militiamen promptly crossed the lines to join the White Army...
Meantime Generalissimo Franco's lines, which more than half-encircled Madrid like a giant horseshoe, receded or advanced as alternating sallies of the Red Militia and the White Army met with setback or success. White troops, however, were saying confidently that "the fall of Madrid is only a matter of hours...
...ensuing six years, which bring Chiang Kai-shek up to 1936, his face has been consistently red from Japanese slaps but his brain and will have driven the Chinese people to extraordinary achievements, few of which have made world headlines. In the past five years alone China has built a greater mileage of roads than in the previous 3,000 years. Motor trucks and buses now snort over a Chinese countryside in which the peasants are still too poor to buy even kerosene for their lamps, much less bus tickets. The buses are mainly for Chiang's soldiers...
...forces hither and thither for approximately 2,000 miles through seven provinces ending with Kansu where they now are, still unconquered. In many of these provinces the original local Chinese authorities were more or less at outs with Dictator Chiang, but, after they had been attacked by the Red armies and either badly frightened or overcome, they greeted the arrival of the Generalissimo's troops with unwonted enthusiasm...
...Red, Hot and Blue (words & music by Howard Lindsay, Russel Grouse & Cole Porter; Vinton Freedley, producer). This first brand-new star to rise in Broadway's 1936-37 musicomedy firmament was judged by most observers to be of the second magnitude. In terms of a college musical show, the libretto wrestles with the story of a nation-wide search for a girl with a waffle-iron burn on her fundament. She has been lost since 1918, approximately the year in which Messrs. Lindsay's & Grouse's puns, concerning souls and heels and counterfeiters who forge ahead, lost...