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...bearded Governor of the Bank of England, an emissary from Mr. Norman's office picked up a handful of white tags and an order for 11,500 gold bars, took an elevator down 60 ft. to the Old Lady's bullion vaults. With him went an ordinary detail of scarlet-coated British guardsmen wearing bearskin hats and carrying Army rifles with fixed bayonets...
Brightly clothed in canary an intellectual review caught his eye. He toyed with it for a moment, turned it over, and was chilled by its complacent pseudosity. There was a weekly in a cover framed with the scarlet which advertised its contents; the Vagabond contemplated this seriously, but he remembered that it would be filled with cynical bad taste and journalisic perversions of the English language; this was no day to make allowances for a Yale education; Time was passed in judgment. Then there was that magazine in dull green; the Vagabond could taste bad gin, and the contents...
...their scarlet, gold-laced uniforms last week the Beefeaters carefully removed from the Tower not only the crown and the sceptre but a whole shop windowful of diamond-studded ornaments. Piling into motorcars they took these to St. James's Palace, guarded them during the night...
Once, for a pal in the R. A. F., Shaw filled in this personal report: "Favorite color: scarlet. Favorite dish: bread & water. Favorite musician: Mozart. Favorite author: Wm. Morris. Favorite character in history: Nil. Favorite place: London. Greatest pleasure: sleep. Greatest pain: noise. Greatest fear: animal spirits. Greatest wish: to be forgotten of my friends...
...city. Nancy Carroll is a bank clerk and the town's prettiest girl. She is so popular that the gossips wag their tongues. When a young rake entertains her at his parties, it is taken for granted that he and she are misbehaving. More becomingly dressed than in Scarlet Dawn, Miss Carroll plays her stupid role ingratiatingly; Cary Grant is a new leading man who has the qualifications for an illustrious career. He acts with assurance, enunciates clearly, looks like Clark Gable with his ears pinned back...