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...small but quick profit. Sir John, by offering only 3% (some British loans in World War I paid 5%), had left the disgusted stags too thin a margin on which to operate. In City jargon the Chancellor was "trying it on the hard way," but when two top-hatted, scarlet-coated minions of the Bank of England swung its portals wide his confidence was justified. In went the stockbrokers' clerks and within four hours the loan had been oversubscribed...
...Bidermann burdened his hero with the sin of Pride, "as the most decent for portrayal on the stage." It is also the most deadening; about all a playwright can do is lambaste it. Had Cenodoxus-who was, after all, a Parisian-gone in for a few of the more scarlet sins, he might have become, like Faust and Don Juan, a really immortal sinner...
...proudly emphasized her Statehood by separately declaring war on Germany-the traditional gold-braided jackets and fluttery plumed hats of Canadian officials on State occasions were omitted last week when Parliament convened in Ottawa. In sombre morning clothes the Governor General entered the oak-paneled, scarlet-trimmed Senate: pippin-cheeked Scottish Novelist Baron Tweedsmuir, gravely embodying (according to law) "the Person of the King in Canada...
...stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned on each the Grand Cross, and hung on each the scarlet sash of the Legion of Honor...
...Come now, and let its reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow...