Word: headdressed
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...white gowns, white-blossomed veils and carrying candles. In the sanctuary one by one they knelt, begging Bishop Thomas J. Walsh of Newark to admit them to the religious community. From each dark head full-fledged nuns removed the white veil. The Bishop substituted the shiny black sunbonnet-like headdress of the Maestre Pie. Now a novice, each girl walked back from the sanctuary in the black habit which she expects to wear for the rest of her life teaching in the order's 14 schools...
...head on a blanket of bright green broccoli; a toothsome slant-eyed dancing girl, pigtails and red skirts whirling; a bug-eyed Mussolini, giving the Fascist salute; a scrawny-necked bass viol player in the wreck of a brown frock coat; an Indian dancer of Oxaca in a tremendous headdress of flowers and shells. Priced at $25 to $250, they sold fast. Seven were gone a week after the show opened. The sedate Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two; the Brooklyn Museum owns...
Benin today is part of British Nigeria, a prosperous city of 35,000 blacks with paved highways and scarcely a trace of the old City of Blood. Under British guidance a king still rules there. Though he affects the coral headdress of his ancestors and a curved executioner's sword still precedes him wherever he goes, he wears gold-rimmed spectacles, speaks with an Oxford accent, and was discovered last year seated in a rocking chair, reading Lord Chesterfield's Letters...
Similarly moved, the Herald Tribune: "She wore a brown coat with a mink collar which she held up around her face continuously, and a small brown hat, almost tricorne in shape, similar to her headdress in Peter Pan. . . . She walked gracefully to the stand, stood erect for a moment, then turned and bowed to Justice McNamee . . . another bow to the jury . . . she seated herself...
This put the Ethiopian commander facing General Graziani, Dedjazmatch Nassibu, in a towering rage. His lion's mane headdress trembling with emotion, that chieftain roared...