Word: rashes
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...course, impossible at this time to judge Trotzky's merits in this new role. Perhaps his historical works are propaganda. Still, they may be books of great historical value. If the latter, Trotzky has done a rash thing to brave the patriotic furor of the Russian people with truths they do not want to hear. He might well have remembered the calumny visited upon American historians who dared to hint that the British of the Revolutionary period were not all tyrants and rogues, and that George Washington may not have cut down the cherry tree...
...simply worded-the most arrogant advertisement in the world. It read in large letters ANNA PAVLOWA; in small ones, as if the epithet was too indisputable to require emphasis, "The Incomparable." Karsavina is the only woman who has ever been capable of challenging the justice of that epithet. How rash was her challenge? A large audience went to see. For them she danced. In chevelure of curled peruke, to a Mozart serenade, she swished her silken panniers, as did the belles of Bath, treading in the formal maze of a minuet, all the pride and fashion of the 18th Century...
...lacklustre; there was a negligence under his sleek grace; and he needed a touch of the whip to bring him up to the barrier-a touch that made him sulky. Jockey Kummer, instead of Jockey Haynes, had the leg up and rode an adequate race except for that one rash touch. Away they went-a flash of silk, a huddle of bobbing heads at the turn, one, two, pulling away, animated toys all; then the stretch, the crowd ris- ing, a tatoo of hoofs-F. A. Burton's Wise Counsellor first; second, Big Blaze; third, Sun Flag; fourth, Initiate...
...Dave" Kirkwood, fiery Clydeside Laborite, stretched his index finger and pointed with scorn to the rash knight: "That," said he, "is a gentleman"; and there was no mistaking the grinding sarcasm...
Persistent abdominal pain and any rash or eruption should be reported at once. The earlier the detection of contagious or other serious illness the greater the protection to the individual and his associates...