Word: scarlet
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...they inject bad taste into normal banality by using "hell" as a drawing card. This is especially obvious in the embarrassment that everyone seems to feel when a character swears in American movies. With the revival of Gone With the Wind came Rhett Butler's famous exit line, "Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn." Coming as the final word of exasperation from a much put-upon hero, the sentence itself was quite inoffensive. But as the only such word in almost four hours of dialogue it had a terrific shock effect, and was hardly treated as a part...
...many of my countrymen, blush scarlet with shame at the love affair now going on in the East between Mr. Attlee and the Chinese Communists. While we in Britain deplore the extremes of McCarthyism, millions of us are nauseated by the way certain members of the Labor Party play "footsie" with the Reds. Mr. Attlee, an ex-soldier, should know better, or at least have some vestige of pride in his country . . . I can only hope that as these ambling dreamers wander around the Orient as guests of the Reds . . . the British dead in Korea...
...week, after wars, tragedies, triumphs and 38 years together, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower celebrated their wedding anniversary in the White House. Ninety-three guests, members of Ike's West Point class (1915), their wives and a few widows, came for dinner on the anniversary eve. Through dinner the scarlet-coated Marine Band orchestra played nostalgic songs from the days when Ike was courting Mamie, e.g., selections from The Chocolate Soldier; the conversation was full of sentimental remembrances. The song that stopped the table talk, stretched Ike's grin to capacity and moved Mamie to clap her hands...
...Britain, where the month of June holds the best prospect of good weather, Queen Elizabeth II, who actually turned 28 last April, celebrated her official birthday in the old monarchic tradition. Sitting sidesaddle on a big chestnut horse named Winston, and decked out in the scarlet and blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Coldstream Guards, she watched the Trooping the Color ceremony on London's Horse Guards parade ground. Later, the Queen proclaimed the fifth honors list of her reign. Among the 2,500 British and Commonwealth citizens on the roster: old (80) Author Somerset Maugham...
...unusual to find someone who not only played her parts one after another, but several at once . . . Yet . . . has anyone . . . seen her in the character of academic woman? It is surely time that she added 'fabulae togatae' to her repertoire; so let us clothe her in our scarlet gown...