Word: scarlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lettering the doors of Leverett and Winthrop Houses with eighteen-inch scarlet B's and U's the vandals bedecked House squash courts with 2-foot-high characters...
...Eliot House, the oak-pannelled front door of John H. Finley, master of the House, was bedecked with another pair of the scarlet letters...
...Williams made his reputation as a writer of brawny short stories, many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Like good hybrid corn, his yield has increased until it has overflowed into novels-novels that get bigger as Williams gets deeper into the American past. In Thread of Scarlet, he covered Nantucket Island during the War of 1812, in a mere 374 pages. Come Spring, a Revolutionary War novel, ran to 866 pages. His latest, House Divided, sprawls over fifteen hundred pages and four years of Confederate history...
Helpful Patients. Once the Navajos are won over, Dr. Salsbury says, they make wonderful patients. They rarely show irritation and are stoical about pain. They also seem to be impervious to many of the white man's diseases: Dr. Salsbury has never found a case of scarlet fever among the Navajos. Also rare: diabetes, breast cancer, baldness...
...Scarlet Smears. Outside the hotel entrance 18 French war orphans waited and wilted. "Vive I'Argentine, vive la France," they piped as Evita's car arrived. She hugged two of the youngsters, kissed them, leaving smears of scarlet lipstick on their sweaty cheeks...