Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous assortment of cartridges (1,500 of 40 different makes), 360,000 filing cards on poison (largest collection in the world), razors and knives, plaster casts of teeth, hanks of hair, chunks of skull perforated with bullet holes. In his office are a homemade rifle range, charts spattered with red ink to mark the splash of blood, hundreds of machines to weigh, measure, test and sight, all made by Waddie out of odds & ends from the five...
...slabs of concrete over lavatory glass, skylights, pavements, etc. Inside, 30 seconds before the rest of London hears an air-raid siren's wail, a, special Klaxon stops the traders. They gather their books and scurry to their City offices, all less than half a mile away. Only red-and-blue liveried "waiters" (runners) are left on the echoing floor. So called because 18th-Century brokers did their trading in coffee houses, the waiters are A. R. P. wardens...
...Amian was more pleased at the imminence of the new schedule last week than reticent, wiry, red-haired F. M. Blotner, Pan Am's Brazil operations manager. It had been his baby for nine years. An Ohio-born, World War I, U. S. Navy flier, he went to work for Pan Am in Cuba in 1929 after losing his shirt trying to operate his own airline between Miami and Nassau. Transferred to South America, he was struck by the absence of strong and prevailing winds, of storms, heavy rains and bad weather in interior Brazil. He sounded...
...Congress Representative Overton Brooks God-blessed America, told his colleagues: "When . . . we hear Kate Smith on the radio, every red-blooded American feels a deeper admiration and a greater love for the last republic in the entire world...
Lewis sets himself up as a middle-aged Major Archibald Corcoran, lecture-touring the U. S. as "The Pukka Sahib." A visit in Nineveh, N. Y. furnishes him with several chapters on the newly decaying, depression-struck, provincial "Aristocracy." The thin red Anglo-Saxon line, by his observation, is wearing thinner very fast; for Lewis the U. S. has no more to do with the little island from which he came than it has with Timbuctoo. The one foreigner to whom the U. S. citizen is unaccustomed is the Englishman...