Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They do things so funny in Cleveland. This whole thing is really terrific." What made pert, red-headed Toto Leverne thus exclaim last week was the French Casino's canvas top which one night leaked buckets of rain on her naked body, spoiled her swan dance. But for the 250,000 people who last week gaped at Dancer Leverne and other exhibits of Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, her remark was the perfect tribute to a city's spirited struggle to lift itself up & out of Depression...
...League Assembly had voted to lift Sanctions from Italy and refuse succor to Ethiopia, Herr Greiser marched into a session of the League Council and with calculated insolence of manner addressed in German the luckless Council President, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden whose handsome young face was soon beet-red. In unprintably coarse language Herr Greiser attacked Mr. Lester to his face on personal grounds and demanded a free hand in Danzig for Nazis to administer their brand of "law and order...
...Hunloke, tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia's red & green sidelights, and $1,500 by an enthusiastic ex-M. P. for her 18-ft. motor launch in which he proposes to go swankly chugging on the Thames at Richmond...
Anemia or a deficiency of red corpuscles in the blood stream, according to such scrupulous newsorgans as the New York Times last week afflicts the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, who looks exactly like beef-eating, red-blooded John Bull...
...finds it difficult not only to walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius XI holds audiences, there has been set up behind a red curtain a portable washstand and toilet, with a cabinet containing first-aid medicaments. To this, and presumably to one like it at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope could, in case of an emergency, be rushed by doctors who are always close...