Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George dignified these proceedings by calling Mr. Bullitt a "liar," referred contemptuously to "a journey some boys are reported to have made to Russia." When smug Philadelphia friends called him a "Bolshevik"' and when his first wife divorced him in 1923, Bill Bullitt married the widow of John Reed, the U. S. Communist who went through the Russian Revolution, wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, died of typhus in Moscow and was buried with highest Soviet honors in the Kremlin wall. The new Mrs. Bullitt, an out-and-out Red. appeared in Philadelphia in Russian costumes complete with...
Thoroughbred (by Doty Hobart; Theodore Hammerstein and Denis Du For, producers) presents Florence Reed, far from her Mother Goddam of the Shanghai Gesture, as the hard-riding, bawling matriarch of an aristocratic family which owns a racehorse. It develops that her children were fathered by the butler and that the horse has a bar sinister too. But through a rain of horsey talk it seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes...
...ship from getting through the fast-knitting ice. When radio messages from the ship abruptly cease, he takes to futile bawling and sulking in his private cubbyhole. His shillyshallying in the face of a near mutiny results in the loss of an aviator and plane; another aviator, named Brice (Reed Brown Jr.), takes charge of the camp, sets grimly about digging in for another winter on a six-week food supply. But Hartley's life-long luck comes out of temporary hiding, and Brice, after forcing promises from all hands that none of the "messy" incidents shall be disclosed...
...from Louisville, Ky. where it had been exhibited, the Royal Scot, crack London-to-Edinburgh train which was brought to the U. S. for A Century of Progress, struck and killed one Charles Lee Mitchell, 22, while passing through Reed, Ky. Engineer William Gilbertson did not know he had killed a man, continued his run to St. Louis...
...Reed, and his fellow Republicans in Chicago, are angry because they had to surrender the key to their enfiefed barn before the first of the month. The point they miss, the point the Supreme Court missed, the point our legislators miss is so elementary that their refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party...