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...next victorious nation is France, a little too slick and suave to defeat honest, persevering Anglo Saxons, as the Scarlet Pimpernel and countless Napoleonic pictures show. But they always beat the rest of Europe, and delight in thrashing picturesque Arabs. After the French, there is no really powerful nation always assured of the victory our favor brings. Generally, though, an underdog people or nation can be counted on to lick the oppressor, especially if an itinerant American adventurer falls in love with the rebel leader's daughter (played by Patricia Medina...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Winner Take All | 3/20/1954 | See Source »

...Alice and Milly [then] put miniature sets of false teeth into their mouths and leer at each other; I confiscate the teeth. Then Alice puts a pair of spectacles made of scarlet wire on her impudent nose and grins round ... I send her out . . . The class . . . call: 'Goodbye, Alice−aren't you lucky to leave' this boring lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Scot in the Sixth Grade | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Harvard last spring, he put on a scarlet waistcoat and a red, white & blue tie as just one more old grad, 25 years out. But whenever he opened his mouth, reporters jotted down notes, and wherever he went, flashbulbs flared. Nathan Pusey had just been named the 24th president of Harvard University. He was an apparent nobody, plucked out of nowhere, who had never even written a book. His classmates managed to work him into their rhymes: "Nate" was "great," and so, of course, was " '28." But the rest of Harvard had another chant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...their load right on the Germania shipyards. I am impressed by the precision with which those bastards bomb; it is fantastic." But precision had its price: by the end of 1943, Knoke had shot down 20 Allied planes, and had himself been shot down twice. A fat man in scarlet boots rewarded him with the Gold Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Loser's Scrapbook | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...really good dish plus a good vegetable and a salad makes a dinner. Salads have come into great popularity-there's hardly a meal without them." To make a salad is simple. Take a radish, not just an ordinary radish "but a tiny radish of the passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columnist at the Table | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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