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...James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ and serum...
Item II: In Persepolis Dr. Herzfeld uncovered a series of wall sculptures which, if set together, would form a vast panel of reliefs five or six feet high, almost a thousand feet long. He also found that Artaxerxes wore scarlet shoes...
...stern, scarlet Mother Hubbard is the Soviet State. In one of her Moscow cupboards she keeps tons of jam (most Russians fancy gooseberry with the seeds left in). Lately this cupboard has been almost bare. Nine greedy Comrades, including the Warehouse Manager, have been stealing jam (especially gooseberry), peddling it for sky-high prices on Moscow's illicit "open markets." Last week they squealed confessions, begged mercy...
Succumbing again to the persistent offensive drive of the scarlet clad skaters, the Varsity hockey team went down to defeat, 5-2, in the Montreal Forum on Friday, Dec. 23, at the hands of the McGill University sextet, in the single vacation encounter...
...marriage, 1921, was to be the red-letter year of Actress Cornell's theatrical career. As Sydney in A Bill of Divorcement she rationalized, idealized the post-War flapper. Next came two costume parts (in Will Shakespeare and Casanova), two mistakes (The Way Things Happen, The Outsider), a scarlet misstep with David Belasco (Tiger Cats), and then Candida. George Bernard Shaw has never met Katharine Cornell. One look at her photograph, however, and the bearded sage of Adelphi Terrace pronounced her the best Candida who ever played the part...