Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Spain? After three weeks of war Russia's planned Blitzkrieg had definitely failed to blitz. Defeated on two fronts and held on the third, the Red Army had lost immeasurably in men, morale, prestige...
Lydia Marakova (Massey) is a pink singer in old St. Petersburg. Her father and brother are Reds. Despite these home influences, Lydia is irresistibly attracted when Prince Karagin (Eddy) begins a kittenish courtship which would set the teeth of a more experienced young woman on edge. Red family friends of Lydia reward Prince Karagin for arranging her operatic debut by shooting his father. Off goes Lydia to Siberia. Off goes Prince Karagin to World War I, the big moment of which comes on Christmas Eve, when Karagin carols Silent Night from the Russian trenches while the Austrians across...
...familiar figure on Washington golf links is spry, white-haired Dr. Steuart Brown Muncaster. Proud of his Scottish ancestry, he sports neckties of loud clan plaids. But seldom does he wear his own Gregor, for its red and green checks are "too subdued" for his taste. For 19 years Dr. Muncaster taught ophthalmology at Georgetown University, for more years than most of his colleagues can remember he performed eye operations in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. During that time he brought up a half-dozen younger surgeons, built up a legend about his generosity to charity patients...
Monsignor Sheen's remarks were more than funereal eloquence. They were probably intended partly as an answer to those Catholics who still viewed Heywood Broun as an unreconstructed Red, who ought never to have been accepted by the Church. And they were undoubtedly voiced, by one of the nation's most influential Catholics, as the sincerest tribute he could make to a man who had sincerely been his friend...
...husky, smiling Warren Courtland Mac Farlane. In 1933, when Messrs. Peek and Johnson were sowing the seeds of the New Deal, the accident of Depression put Minneapolis-Moline $1,541,000 in the red and a motor accident broke President Mac Farlane's back. Two years later Minneapolis-Moline netted $170,000, and indomitable President Mac Farlane, in his wheel chair, flew 15,000 miles around South America drumming up business. In 1938 Minneapolis-Moline had a profit of $727,000, and President Mac Farlane was riding horses for amusement...