Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon a 36-foot, red-satin bed called "The Ardent Couch" an unclad Venus lies dreaming. Of her four uninhibited dreams, the first-an underwater vision called "Venus's Pre-natal Château Beneath the Water"-is the real crowd-catcher. A long glass tank is filled with such subaqueous décor as a fireplace, typewriters with funguslike rubber keys, rubber telephones, a man made of rubber ping-pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali...
...public pay roll since 1930, when red-faced Alabama withdrew him from the Senate, has -been James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, 70, whose mortal hate & fear of the Pope of Rome used to be sure-fire political hokum. His last job, in 1937, was as a special attorney for the Department of Justice at $6,000 per year...
...about the Army possessed by most civilians: "... being a shy and rather self-conscious nation, and disliking any display of sentiment, we endeavour to conceal our real feelings towards such a calling as the soldier's by being flippant about it - cracking jokes on the subject - jokes about red tape, brass-hats, bully beef, and serjeant-majors. All of which is harmless enough...
...Britain has ruled Europe since Elizabeth's day, by fragmentation of the neighboring continent, had grown frightened of China's growing political unity and economic strength. Under Strong Man Chiang Kaishek, who the previous December had formed a tacit anti-Japanese front with the powerful Chinese Red Army, China was close to being an integrated nation-closer than at any time since the 18th Century, when the Manchus had ruled an empire that stretched from southern Burma to beyond Vladivostok. Moreover, native Chinese businessmen had begun to give not only European and American foreign devils but the despised...
...Red Eighth Route Army harries the invader by guerrilla fighting throughout Shansi and Southern Hopei, and a "People's Self-Defense Army" of 50,000 mobile guerrilla units operates in central Hopei. By day a Chinese peasant, brown as the earth he tills, may placidly hoe his rows; by night he may be part of a guerrilla band that is chivying Japanese sentries; next day, when the Japanese start reprisals, he will be back on his acre, his gun and soldier's kit buried, a blank look on his face...