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...nations (including Socialist Britain) and representatives of Socialist groups exiled from Spain, Argentina and Communist countries (including Yugoslavia). It was the eighth international meeting of Socialist parties* since World War II. At one point, four young Germans in blue shirts advanced to the platform bearing a huge scarlet banner on which the words Sozialistische Internationale were emblazoned in gold. But the old red flag was not what it used...
...devotee of Holmesiana would be glad to remind you that "B" is always set in (small) capitals, thus: 221 B. See Chapter II of A Study In Scarlet...
Blue-jerseyed plane-pushers, shouting like stevedores above the clatter of their tractors, hurried to get the planes back to the Princeton's stern for the next launching. Mechanics, refueling and armament men in scarlet worked the planes over for the next strike. In his chart room abaft the flag bridge, handsome, white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike. One pilot's instruments had been damaged by enemy ground fire; another thought his plane had been hit too. A young ensign...
...absence of Britain's King George, down with a lung inflammation, Princess Elizabeth, dressed in a scarlet & gold tunic and a plumed tricorne fashioned after the headgear of a 1745 Grenadier colonel, mounted a police charger, sat sidesaddle to receive the annual salute from the Brigade of Guards at the Trooping of the Color...
...small but vocal lobby had worked hard to reprieve the last seven "men in scarlet"; its efforts were backed by Bonn's Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher, leader of the nationalist German Free Democratic Party, Socialist Leader Dr. Carlo Schmid, and $12,000 of Bonn government funds. Twice the Department of State...