Word: scarlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body. At the supreme moment, the sacrament, the consecrated wafer . . . is debased instead of elevated, and subsequently defiled." (Witchcraft; Harcourt Brace...
...deceptive and insidious disease. In its first stage it looks like an ordinary respiratory infection, perhaps a mere sore throat, and is often overlooked or mistaken for another disease. Recent research has shown that the infection is usually group A streptococcus (but not streptococcus of other groups), and occasionally scarlet fever...
...crews which finished behind Harvard's, only Rutgers had previously raced against the Bolles boat. The Scarlet oarsmen participated in the ill-fated Severn River regatta at Annapolis, in which the Harvard boat was last...
...Little Sitwells. That childhood was so sheltered, so beset with nurses, governesses, tutors and eccentric relatives, that it is no wonder the three little Sitwells, grown up, confuse heredity-"that fragile scarlet tree we all carry within us"-with an extraordinary environment. Edith as a girl was hung with corrective clamps and braces, including a nose-shaper, and was forced to swing herself dizzy on rings and parallel bars...
...gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost as special as their scarlet tree...