Word: scarlets
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...tour itself went off like African clockwork. Delays were commonplace. Vast crowds surged around Elizabeth and Prince Philip as they were whirled through Addis in the Emperor's Rolls-Royce, which broke down only once. At one point they transferred to the silken cab of a green and scarlet imperial coach pulled by a team of six Lippizaner horses. They dined on lamb, watt (Ethiopia's excellent meat and vegetable stew), tedj-a honey-based mead-and Taitinger champagne. The imperial touch was also present when Elizabeth journeyed over the dusty plain to Asmara, where she was greeted...
...candidacy is dead, but those who refused to count her votes, our votes, live on. For what they did Monday they bear the curse of cain, the albatross, and the scarlet letter. They were born bureaucrats, and bureaucrats they will remain. May they be drowned in a pit of red tape and their death certificates notarized in quadruplicate. Christian Brannon
...worry myself that way . . . Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense . . . When we look at each other, it's like our eyes have fingers and they grab ahold ... I think I ended up being the scarlet woman because of my rather puritanical up bringing and beliefs. I couldn't just have a romance. It had to be a marriage...
...earnest if somewhat amateurish biography, Yvette is finally portrayed in truer colors. She was nearer vestal than scarlet. As a critic noted at the time, the onstage illusion Yvette so shatteringly evoked was of knowing virginity; as stage-door admirers soon discovered, it was no illusion...
During World War I, tens of thousands of American soldiers became ill with scarlet fever or related strep infections. Mrs. Lancefield, who got her master's at the time and began working for her doctorate in microbiology at Columbia University, had no trouble finding a problem on which to concentrate. Encouraged by her husband, Geneticist Donald E. Lancefield, she became one of the first bacteriologists to recognize that the streptococci are an appallingly complex group of microbes. She spent a decade in the laboratory, painstakingly classifying different strains of streptococci according to the poisons they produce...