Word: scarlets
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...been used much on children, because their tissue resistance is naturally high. But it helps a scarlet fever case if given before the patient has been ill three days. Professor Bogomoletz thinks it might be used to stimulate growth in underdeveloped children...
Acres of Death. But the Air Ministry's huge Berlin map already blossoms with scarlet blotches, indicating areas where the bombs have finished their work. Goriest blotch of all centers on the Tiergarten district, where some 60% of the jampacked Government bureaus and offices have been destroyed. Dead, burned-out suburbs almost surround this area...
...dingy, drafty former stable in Ottawa where sit the seven judges of Canada's Supreme Court in scarlet, ermine-trimmed robes and black, tricornered hats, one chair will be empty this week. Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff, the Dominion's own counterpart of the late great Oliver Wendell Holmes, is retiring...
...smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!", and dashed a glass of water in her face as she sprinted out. Sometimes Miss Garland retaliates. When, making Girl Crazy, she appeared in white calfskins, Mickey quipped: "You look like a vanilla ice-cream cone." Miss Garland measured Mickey's scarlet-chapped 5 ft. 2 in., riposted: "You look like a rationed bottle of catsup...
...house to show old Peter Cooper his telephone. The Hewitt boys studied it, cut out a wooden earpiece, made coils and a magnet, got a piece of black enameled iron from a tintype photographer for a diaphragm, and ran wires to the bed of their brother Erskine, who had scarlet fever, found they could talk to him without breaking quarantine. The doctor was astonished. Thomas Edison demonstrated his talking machine to Peter Cooper, and the boys copied that too. They used their telephone diaphragm and the cook's rolling pin, which they stole while she was in the laundry...