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...same frayed sandals that carried St. Gandhi on his illegal salt march through India 19 months ago carried him last week up the crimson-carpeted stair of Buckingham Palace. Flunkies in scarlet & gold bowed the small, unrepentant lawbreaker into the Picture Gallery. There at the head of the receiving line stood George V in striped trousers and morning coat, Queen Mary in a shimmering silver tea gown and Edward of Wales (who had flown down especially from Liverpool) dressed like his father. The Lord Cham berlain, the Earl of Cromer, advanced through a horde of 500 tea guests, some...
Last week nine Communists were on trial in Toronto charged with "unlawful conspiracy and sedition." They jumped in their seats when their old friend "E. W. Esselwein" entered to give testimony, once more clean shaven and buttoned into the scarlet tunic of Sergeant Leonard...
...Cossack chorus emphasizes its historic background by appearing in military tunics, breeches with a single scarlet stripe, and high, shiny riding boots. It has many another unique characteristic: Its members are all exiled from Soviet Russia (as men-without-a-country they travel on "Nansen" passports devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like...
...know how to dance means exclusion from one essential and valuable phase of a college course--the social life. New students may well afford to know how to dance, if they do not already, for while studies should be the primary concern they are not everything. --Grinnell Scarlet and Black...
...considerable stretch of meaning." Eventually he did attend the Monday conference, to listen but not to speak. Accompanied by his faithful Mrs. Sarojini Naidu carrying a thermos bottle full of goat's milk and a bag of nuts, he arrived in a small Wolseley saloon upholstered in scarlet leather. Dignified Sir Samuel Hoare attracted no little attention by popping suddenly from the interior of a small Baby Austin. Despite the secrecy of hotel employes, reporters discovered that St. Gandhi had had a secret conference with Scot MacDonald in the swank Dorchester Hotel...