Word: scarlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
...industrial development and hence her war effort. A recent Indian cartoon showed the Viceroy hunting, with the legend: "This week the Viceroy shot down 247 enemy partridges." His persistence in official dignities has come in for criticism. He still uses a ten-car viceregal train, steps from it to scarlet carpets. Last month, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek paid his momentous visit to India, the Viceroy sent an aide to welcome him instead of going himself...
Mister V (Small; United Artists) will not fool even the dunces in the back row. Its producer-director-star, airy Leslie Howard, played the same leading role seven years ago in The Scarlet Pimpernel. Then he was an 18th-Century English lord, airily rescuing French aristocrats imperiled by the Revolution; now he is a peripatetic British archeologist, airily saving scientists from Hitler...
...Many maladies which occur as epidemics in the U.S. are endemic (permanent) in North China. Scarlet fever smolders constantly. Also common: typhoid, diphtheria, erysipelas, meningitis, mumps, encephalitis, amebiasis (infection of the intestines by amebae...
...creates. Deft little touches like the author's prologue, brilliantly done by David Mayer '42, combine with acting, directing, and staging to produce an atmosphere and a play that is worthy of as much enthusiasm as that of Lorca's villagers, when they gather 'round to hear the scarlet-caped, feather-capped story-teller...