Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing that he wanted to surprise the country with a deficit that would look like a trifling puddle beside the oceans of red ink spread on the Government's books during the past two years, many a Washington wiseacre believed the President would profess uncertainty of Relief needs. He might, for example, ask only a billion for Relief. This would lend the budget a cheerful aspect that would last through next year's elections, after which another Congress could appropriate another billion...
...James Aloysius Robert Quinn, owner of the Red Sox for ten disastrous seasons (1923-1933), was awarded the franchise of the defunct Boston Braves. With the aid of Charles Francis Adams, majority stockholder of the old organization, and others, he will pay off the Braves' creditors, raise enough new money to rejuvenate his team...
...special guard in red uniforms and 50 private detectives standing by every entrance were not enough last week for the opening of the Henry Clay Frick art collection on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Dynamic Miss Helen Clay Frick sent for the bomb squad from police headquarters and a special detail of a precinct captain, a sergeant, and twelve patrolmen. Only then were the doors opened and New York's bluest bloods admitted to a museum to which, in the will of its donor, "the entire public shall forever have access subject only to reasonable regulations...
Possibly the best known picture in the entire collection is the self-portrait of the aging Rembrandt in a velvet cap. Other famed numbers include Titian's Man in a Red Cap, Titian's portrait of the bearded, obscene Pietro Aretino; Raeburn's portraits of James Cruickshank & wife; the immensely valuable St. Francis in Ecstacy by Giovanni Bellini; eleven Fragonard panels for which Frick reputedly paid J. P. Morgan more than...
...finally cleared himself. In building up his hero Biographer Bryant does not overplay his hand. He admits that Pepys. after the death of his wife, "formed a connection" with one Mary Skinner, that he delighted in the emoluments and furbelows of his high office, that he accepted presents occasionally-red sprats, a tun of Rhenish wine, even a tame lion...