Word: scarleted
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Dressed in the scarlet death-cell garb, the seven condemned Nazis waited in Landsberg prison for their midnight appointment with the hangman. The hearses with the empty coffins were ready to take the bodies to home-town cemeteries. Late in the evening the men said goodbye to their wives...
...Johnny Brent, who is quarantined at home during an outbreak of scarlet fever at his school. In his wanderings around the neighborhood he finds a younger boy playing with a very large and powerful magnet. Before long he tricks the child into swapping the magnet for an "invisible watch." As Johnny goes along the streets on his way home, testing the magnet on nails and old bits of iron, remorse suddenly strikes him. But it's too late; fate begins to torment...
Enter the Villain. By such good reports in recent years, the Erie, once "synonymous with bankruptcy, litigation, fraud and failure," has lived down its reputation as the "Scarlet Woman of Wall Street." The man who seduced the Erie was an ex-cattle drover named Daniel Drew, a director from 1853 to 1868. "Uncle Dan'l" made millions juggling Erie stock* on Wall Street, but never gave the common stockholders a nickel, giving rise to the saying: "Icicles will sprout in hell before Erie common pays a dividend...
...percentage of freight with diesels than any other trunk line in the U.S. Its radio communications system, linking the engineer with the caboose and with wayside dispatchers, is the most elaborate in the U.S.; its accident rate is less than half the U.S. railroad average. Wall Street's scarlet woman has become as correct and prudent as a Park Avenue dowager...
...turn of the century died before they were old enough to go to school. Today, if a child reaches his first birthday, he will almost surely reach high-school age. Reason : many of the leading child-killers of the past-diarrhea, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever-have been all but conquered. Pneumonia, heart diseases, TB and cancer still take a heavy toll, but even these killers are being discouraged by medical progress in treatment and early diagnosis...