Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...most beautiful Byzantine apse in the U. S. was dedicated last Sunday not in a Greek Orthodox church but in Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist. With its glowing gold, blue, red & black mosaics, its multi-colored marble panels and the ancient ikons on the reredos above its elaborate stone altar, it was a far cry from Manhattan's John Street Church. That church was the home of the first Methodist Society in the U. S., which split wide open in 1820 and lost many a member because the trustees put a carpet on the pulpit platform...
...Paris, a French boxer just out of the Army battled ten roaring rounds to a draw. Purse: 100 francs ($1), 50 litres of red wine, a bouquet of violets, a sack of potatoes...
Kenneth Roberts has a legendary temper, on which he practices great self-control. But self-control in his case is said to be a brief, turkey-red moment between the rush of blood to his face and an outburst that begins (in milder cases) with goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...
Still farther down unshaven, red-faced Greeks marched toward the invaders with fixed bayonets. Near them trudged their women, erect with food and even ammunition balanced on their heads; and their mules, diamond-hitched with heavy loads. Much farther along, the front-line toilers did their work...
Luiz Carlos Prestes, 39, onetime Brazil Army officer who later became the leader of the Brazilian Communist Party, used to be hailed by his Red admirers as The Bearded Knight of Hope." He has since shaved, is now called "The Knight Hope." For the past few years Prestes been in a Rio de Janeiro jail, serving a 17-year sentence for sedition passed on him after the failure of the Communist uprising of 1935. Three weeks ago he stood trial again, this time for the murder a 17-year-old girl, Elvira Copelo Polonio, alias Elza Fernandes...