Word: headdress
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That he may be adopted by an Indian tribe and given a feather headdress, delights the gangling physicist from Brussels. What he has heard concerning Manhattan terrifies him. Cried he last week: "Of the stratosphere I am not afraid. But what those journalists will...
...public by pretending sexual interest in their sister. Rasputin not only solves this problem but gives two of the Barrymores a chance to execute their specialties. Lionel spits on the floor and regurgitates even more loudly than he did in Grand Hotel. Ethel wears a nurse's headdress like the nun's towel she had in The Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes to make it seem more than what...
...Freeman). Crowds packed from building line to car tracks threw confetti, cot ton balls, grabbed at shoes dangling over the sides of the trucks. Meanwhile, up from the river came another parade, headed by Joseph O. Misshore, Negro embalmer, in a beaded leather suit, wearing the huge feather headdress of the Zulus, followed by a court of the Dukes of Africa. King Zulu led his retinue down North Rampart Street through admiring dusky throngs who planned to dance late that night at the Zulu ball. King Rex went on to the City Hall to receive the keys of the city...
...wooden gate for weapons. The unarmed entered, had a pinch of salt dropped in a palm, which they lapped up and made a wish for Mother Catherine's help. "Saints" lined up the applicants. The file approached the altar where stood stout Mother Catherine, adorned by a white headdress and a starched apron with the word MOTHER embroidered in red across its bib. On a side table was a huge brown bottle of warm castor oil, which she had blessed, and a bowl of quartered lemons, "taste-killers." To each one with the "miseries," a saint gave a full...
...crowning a Pope, the officiating cardinal deacon advances, supporting with outstretched arms a tall headdress of cloth-of-gold, sewn with precious stones, encircled with three coronets, surmounted by a cross, and says...