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Marching out of Princeton came three British regiments of foot, gleaming in scarlet and gold. These were no mercenaries, like the Hessians beaten at Trenton; these were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...
...Polio. 4. Scarlet fever...
...cinemactor, grandson of famed Henry Cabot Lodge and brother of Massachusetts' Republican candidate for Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. In the movies, Connecticut's Lodge was elastic enough to play Shirley Temple's father in The Little Colonel and Marlene Dietrich's lover in The Scarlet Empress. He decided in favor of politics while serving overseas with the Navy...
Jock McLean, playful son of famed, diamond-shingled Evalyn, enlivened formal affairs in starchy Newport with his dinner jacket, a solid scarlet even to the buttons...
...which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body. At the supreme moment, the sacrament, the consecrated wafer . . . is debased instead of elevated, and subsequently defiled." (Witchcraft; Harcourt Brace...