Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other years were represented besides those of '14, '19, '24, '29, '33, and '36, with even one lone survivor of 1869 in line, but it was primarily the day for uniforms, bands, and hilarity. Following 1914, the class of '19, wearing red and white striped blazers, marched behind a four-horse tallyho, and '24, dressed as toreadors, had a steam calliope which played "Ferdinand the Bull...
...Hudson. The Queen connived to preserve an illusion for Diana Hopkins, 7, suggested that the child see her first in her tiara for the Embassy State dinner. After that function (where Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had an inning), Their Majesties entrained for Red Bank, N. J., next morning were escorted to the destroyer Warrington at Sandy Hook. Hundreds of Britishers on chartered steamers missed them as they sailed across the Lower Bay to the Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen...
...Sunday afternoon, while Their Majesties were resting at Hyde Park, NBC rallied a thin red line of Hollywood's British players, put on a full hour of British-accented heigh-ho. Cissie Loftus sang My Old Dutch, Vivien Leigh and Basil Rathbone recited from the Brownings; and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce and C. Aubrey Smith O. B. E. sang Three Little Fishies (see p. 47). Having thus offered Their Majesties some idea of the state of the Empire in Hollywood, the gathering, 44 strong, responded to a champagne toast proposed by U. S.-born Play Actor George...
...Philadelphians who thought that the League might be just another letterhead, we're-agin-it organization were speedily disabused when they saw who the commission's chairman was. He is one of Philadelphia's most vigorous parsons, Rev. Dr. Nathan Raymond Melhorn, 67, a horny-handed, red-cheeked white-crested onetime farm boy who, since 1920, has been editor of The Lutheran, organ of the United Lutheran Church...
...parallel between her lot and that of the White Russian aristocrats-turned-servants in Tovarich, which she saw in the movies and did not like. The Goritzins had their chance at a Tovarich performance when, working for a consul general in Manhattan, they were told that some "Red Commissars" were coming for lunch. The Goritzins took that day off, went to the movies...