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...track meet between the Freshman and Exeter squads, scheduled for this Saturday afternoon, has been called off on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever which quarantines the school...
...Hume applies the scientific method; avoids the Charybdis of sentimentality and the Scylla of puritanism; achieves clarity and justice. The men who loved her were beyond counting, she had many suitors?but once only, as it seems, Mary had a love affair of her own. The others were merely scarlet threads woven into the texture of her ambition to succeed Elizabeth as England's queen and to restore the Catholic church to Britain...
...Freshman basketball team will not go to Exeter this afternoon as it was scheduled to do. Due to a slight epidemic of scarlet fever Exeter Academy has been quarantined and no teams can enter or leave the school precincts...
...Gentlemen Usher of the Black Rod, the First Lady of the Bedchamber and many another took their places. As the King summoned the members of the House of Commons to enter the House of Lords and hear the Royal Speech, there was a flutter among Peers robed in scarlet, gold and ermine; among Peeresses clad in mourning, which set off their tiaras and coronets to advantage; among prelates in gold and black; among judges whose heads were swathed in wigs large as beehives...
Working swiftly and in the dead of night, friends of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania (TIME, Jan. 11, 18) pasted up enormous scarlet caricatures upon the buildings of Bucharest, the capital. Had Queen Marie (Carol's mother) ridden abroad in the early dawn, she would have beheld a coarse likeness of her alleged "court favorite," Prince Babu Stirbey, leering at her everywhere above the caption, "This...