Word: scarlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a rule common to most, if not all, foxhunters, that there must be no smoking while "in the pink" (dressed in the scarlet hunt coat). Last week, Prince Henry, the King's third son, absentmindedly pulled out his pipe and lit it while waiting for the hounds to pick up the scent. Members of the hunt looked aghast, but their amazement quickly changed to delight; and in five minutes some 20 pipes were going. Thus was another precedent created...
...Scarlet, the token of Theology and Divinity, is the Church's hue for ardent love and zeal...
Dogs. The "love me love my dog" attitude toward house dogs that are treated like human being was deplored by Dr. Minas Joannides of Minneapolis, who charged this intimate companion of man with spreading tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and smallpox; fleas, lice, ticks, worms and many another danger...
...right was a young German, whose heavy, amazed face protruded from the folds of a bathrobe that concealed a torso bulging with incredible dorsal muscles, a pair of clumsy thighs. On his left sat an old Irishman, tired and sly, with a streak of blood like a scarlet worm running down his chin from the corner of his mouth. The ghouls waited. This man in the blue suit stood before them to announce a decision. He did so, when he felt that the drama of his pause had reached its climax, by sharply raising one of his hands. Instantly, from...
...these wild bands fought incessantly over the ground that had been formerly consecrated to learning. Evidence of totems at Cambridge is lacking;--there is frequent mention of a Crimson College, but this refers to a Catholic school for girls. (The name originates in a local euphemism for the "scarlet woman"). The remains of a large library may also account for the non-existence of a totem...