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Before shapely seconds rushed up with the garment, she posed a few in a pair of fetching scarlet trunks, and played it safe when asked about who the man in her life was. She gave even the darkest horse a sporting chance, so as "not to hurt anyone's feelings...
...London, Herbert Morrison wore his red tie, and lady Laborites turned up at the House of Commons in their nattiest scarlet dresses. The News Chronicle's Columnist Ian Mackay was in a reminiscent mood. "May Day," he wrote of his youth, "to my eager young mind, was the great annual festival of freedom, when the quenchless spirit of the common man was continually refreshed and rededicated to the endless quest of love and friendship, liberty and peace among all the peoples of the world. How many of us even dreamed, as we marched starry-eyed behind the flags . . . towards...
...20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood lot or in any adolescent's bedroom, are naturally not to be frustrated by a lot of gunplay and dastardy in post-Civil War New Or leans...
...last season's record alone, the Scarlet and Grey Engineers have a decided edge in today's regatta. Jim McMillan's varsity beat the Crimson three times in '46 and was called "the second best crew in the country" by no less a person than Tom Bolles at the close of the season. The Engineers' time trials have reportedly been extremely successful thus far. Princeton is the only one of the three to have raced already this year, having opened its campaign a week ago by beating Penn across the line by a trifle more than a length. The Tigers...
...Patriarch mounted the rostrum in the middle of the nave. Acolytes ceremonially stripped him of his outer robes and crown. Then over the Patriarch's shoulders they draped three layers of bright, resurrection-season vestments-scarlet and gold in place of silver, a crown of gold and rubies for the pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object...