Word: scarlet
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Then raise the scarlet standard high, Within its shade we'll live and die, Though cowards flinch and traitors
...Volga! Volga!" Joseph Stalin turned up at Truman's dinner in a fawn-colored uniform with scarlet epaulets and the big Gold Star of a Hero of the Soviet Union...
...brother Ira, who wrote the lyrics to some of George's best tunes, is now songwriting in Hollywood), she long ago left Manhattan's grubby East Side behind, now lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park. Last week, in an orange-brown gown and with fingernails lacquered scarlet, she went to see Warner's Rhapsody. "It was sad," she said; "not for me is this a time to show off." She was pretty scornful of the show's rag-to-riches theme: "It's not the truth. . . . There was always enough money for Georgie...
...Burmese delegates came aboard from a motor launch. With the exception of one Burman, who wore formal morning dress, the delegates wore gay silk lungyis and scarlet headdresses. At the head of the green baize wardroom table sat Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent...
...bells of the church carillon pealed, 400 swarthy fishermen in their Sunday best, followed by a score of clergy, made their way from the church to the fish pier. Archbishop Richard J. Gushing of Boston, in scarlet, purple and gold vestments, mounted a flag-decked platform facing the 24 draggers tied up together, with pennants fluttering in a stiff breeze. In his stentorian voice, which made the giant loudspeakers superfluous, the Archbishop said...