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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical New York types, with emphasis on facial expressions and characteristic gestures and dress. Every face is carefully modeled, much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

...willing to "call it a day." Dodie Smith has conceived of just such a situation and she has fittingly dubbed her play "Call It A Day." After the delightful performance of the Theatre Guild cast last night we feel compelled to mock again, and without exaggeration call it a red letter day in our enjoyment of comedies...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...Committee, Mr. Marshall, guardian-angel of the class, has breathed life into the ideas which have been brewing for over a year for improving the management of Freshman affairs and making the class more of a social unit. Changes in student government, which were advanced by last year's Red Book Committee and the Confidential Guide, bid fair to open new fields of activity for enterprising yearlings and to give students greater freedom in shaping their destiny during the early months of their college career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOME RULE FOR FRESHMEN | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

...that the broadcasting companies have clamped down on one party or another during the last few weeks is not borne out by the facts. The tuning dial has run the gamut of colors from the purple and gold of economic royalty to the bright red of communism. Censorship is not the issue, for time on the air has been sold to all comers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAKE IT AWAY | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

...ether. Such mechanical repetition deprives him of the opportunity to change his mind or adapt his arguments to the moment, or in any way to clarify his position. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, for instance, could not have taken place had Douglas been a dummy or a red scal record. Furthermore, at a time when many political voices are household property, the unsophisticated listener may have difficulty deciding which is the real speaker and which the ghost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAKE IT AWAY | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

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