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These lines, say Botanists Harold Moldenke and his wife Alma, do not refer to lilies, which are rare in the Holy Land. They probably mean the Palestine anemone (Anemone coronaria), which still brightens the field with scarlet and gold...
Near Rapallo, where he has lived for the past 40 years, Britain's famed Satirist Sir Max Beerbohm ("the inimitable Max") quietly passed his 80th birthday. Among his gifts: a privately printed scarlet-bound book containing tributes from such younger men of letters as Robert Graves, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene...
...Puddin'! Sugar Puddin'!" sang a husky feminine voice from the bedroom. A moment later Jane Barkley, a full-blown figure of a woman in scarlet housecoat, her hair in disarray, burst on to the side porch. "Look," she said, "I've got Mamie Eisenhower's bangs." Alben Barkley rose from his chair, tilted his wife's tousled head in his big hands, and smiled. "Well," he said, "you're prettier than...
Then, one Technicolored day, in walks Rock Hudson, a handsome merchant skipper. The Scarlet Angel's boss whispers to Yvonne: "He flashed a bankroll that could choke you." Replies Yvonne: "That's a pleasant way to be strangled...
...bowl?" She also undergoes a moral reformation. She turns up her nose at a life of luxury by spurning two handsome, wealthy suitors, and runs off instead with poor but honest Seaman Hudson, who has followed her to San Francisco. By the fadeout, Yvonne has obviously acquired class. Unfortunately, Scarlet Angel never does...