Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garibaldi red shirts were first worn when Grandpa Garibaldi's independence fighters in Uruguay uniformed themselves in a supply of slaughterhouse workers' blouses...
...Reynaud, a thrifty man, had a 21-year-old map in his office. Instead of buying a new one, he kept up with history by marking Germany's acquisitions in red chalk, Russia's in yellow. In the photograph Germany and Russia looked like one. The censor did not like it, ordered the map retouched. (In the first copies of the photograph of the Welles-Reynaud conversations which reached the U. S., the map was blanked out entirely.) L'Illustration, more concerned with art than geography, sketched in Europe's frontiers with considerable inaccuracy. The borders...
Sixty-three-year-old Elkan finally settled in a modest red brick house in London, went on with his sculpture. Commissions were few and small. But little by little, he won British critical acclaim...
Last week on the 7,500-odd square feet of floor space at Manhattan's red-brick Whitney Museum were scattered an estimated 25 tons of assorted sculpture. The occasion: a big spring showing by members and nonmembers of the National Sculpture Society. Of some 185 pieces shown, many would have looked well on a moonlit night behind a fishpond, half covered with ivy. None bore the Whitney Museum's excellent lighting with enough distinction to turn a critic's head. The medal-winner: a reddish marble mother toting a limp child whose build resembled that...
...Supreme Court had one of the merriest times in its history, in 1888, during an infringement suit involving men's underwear. Contested device: a reinforcing patch at the crotch to prevent splitting of the seam. Counsel for the alleged infringer waved a pair of red flannels, asked indignantly whether a patent should be permitted to take away the ancient and sacred right of wives to patch their husbands' underwear. He won his case. Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller laughed so hard he nearly fell under the bench...