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...Though this job-roster is certainly impressive, yet by contrast with Massachusetts, New York or Ohio it is scarcely more than the black frock of the priest to the scarlet of Cardinals...
Curious tots vexed their parents by piping: "How can you tell one kind of a Guard from another?" Super-papas and super-mamas might have replied: "Although they all wear scarlet tunics with blue collars, cuffs and shoulder straps, blue trousers and towering, rounded bearskin hats, you should note that the Grenadier Guards wear a small white plume in the bearskin, the Coldstream Guards a red plume, the Scots no plume and the Irish a blue-green, (not "emerald") plume. To further distinguish the Guards, the buttons on their coats are spaced in a different manner for each regiment...
...blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet of Harper's may enclose as many and as vitriolic shafts directed against complacency as the verdant boards of the less adroit Mercury...
...room on the second floor, was an overflow of people, radio-attentive. As the organ struck into "The Church's One Foundation," a flashing, gleaming pageant advanced in academic rhythm, most steps firm, assured, a few a trifle embarrassed by glory, to the chancel. There were hoods of scarlet, hoods of green, hoods of orange, purple, blue, set off by touches of spotless white, the whole toned down to harmony by the austere background of a white granite pile. Among the robe wearers were 40 university, college and seminary presidents, including two women, Mary E. Woolley (Mt. Holyoke...
...week at St. Peter's. The reading of the papal decree, proclaiming these martyrs blessed, fell appropriately to Mgr. Gromier, French Prelate, and preceded the pontifical mass. Then his Holiness, Pius XI, in snowy white, seated in the sedia gestatoria (sanctified chair) and escorted by twenty cardinals in scarlet, was borne through enormous crowds-full diplomatic corps and all other distinguished Rome-to the basilica, to venerate the newly canonized. Incense rose, heads bowed, throngs cheered...