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...seized a scarlet evening dress from the "Stag Line," whirled it out on the floor. Her sibilant voice was gushing in his ear. "Y'know, I'm a delegate from Latvia, but I haven't been to a single meeting. I've been up in a fellow's room in the Law School since Thursday afternoon." A blank-faced silver-spangled gown cut in. He executed a delicate...
...royal residence, Castle Laeken, he lay in state in his own very simple bedroom. A heavy white bandage was wrapped round his head, and he wore the olive drab uniform of a general. The scarlet sash of the Grand Cross of Leopold was across his chest. There was an ivory crucifix in his bruised hands. The plain rosewood bed on which he lay was covered with white lilacs. Two yellow altar candles burned steadily at its foot, two black-gowned nuns prayed at its head. His clock ticked steadily away on the bedside table...
...Peterkin, as in "Scarlet Sister Mary," treats her subject with great delicacy. her familiarity with the dialect and temperament of the Southern plantation negroes is everywhere evident, and there is in her manner a great deal of the idyllic charm which distinguishes the dialect stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Happily this book does not attempt an expose of social conditions. Rather it catches an aspect of the American Scene which will not long be with us, and one which literature has seldom illumined with any degree of veracity...
Then came the Spahis. Just before midnight the Algerian cavalrymen in their scarlet and white bournouses charged down with drawn sabres and drove the mob back up the Rue Royale to the Madeleine. Sedate Weber's Café became an emergency hospital. Ancient waiters carried the wounded in from the streets, ripped their aprons and napkins for bandages. Passing doctors operated on the restaurant tables...
...suits. In the Grand Ballroom were lively discussions of the color of waistcoats, the cut of coat tails. Haughtily ignoring the ready-to-wear industry which actually controls mass styles, the tailors recommended tuxedo vests of maroon and purple, claret and gold; opera capes of blue vicuna lined with scarlet and purple. The Fashion Committee was in favor of streamlining men's clothes: ". . . a stripe, for example, perpendicular through coat and trousers, but for the waistcoat navigating the torso horizontally. Pockets may trim their flaps back to lay neatly against the wind and there will be no buttons...