Word: mantilla
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...loveliness? For it is not the beauty of gay lights; Nor of swift moving crowds; nor quick young laughter ; Nor of shop-thronged streets; nor the sharp hard clink of money Passing from fist to fist. Rather it is the beauty Of an old, old woman in a black mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down a slope At twilight; or a silent beauty Of wine-dark shadows...
HEAT-Isa Glenn-Knopf ($2.50). This hot jungle of a book contains an innocent West Pointer, a brainy girl from the States and a Dolores whose scented mantilla appears at first to be the real Castilian thing. The scene is perfumed Manila, "charged with alien, bewildering passions" (cf. jacket). The West Pointer is not inflamed by the virtue of his countrywoman's doctrine of drainage and spelling for the natives, but Dolores, an honest-to-goodness Spanish senorita, and in trouble-well, that is different. When the clay feet of Dolores peep from beneath her wicked skirts, the West...
There are many pictures which present the peculiar trend which impressionism has taken against the Spanish background, and which is most strikingly represented by the portraits of Zuloaga. Mezquita discards the landscape background and the black lace mantilla, however, in many of his pictures in favor of a more traditional treatment. The subject of one of these, called Paquita by the painter, would be enough to make this vagabond settle down and join the Rotary Club...
...dashing young debutantes found in every Hasty Pudding show are played by A. G. Carrillo 3E.S. and C. S. Gross '27. Carrillo, who plays Suzanne Waring, is one of the coxswains of the University crews and in mantilla and Spanish headdress becomes a diminutive but forceful senorita. Gross plays the part of the heroine, Alice Breen, a blonde beauty...
...Duquesa de Alba, imperially slim, the incarnation of privilege erect against change, looks out of a cloudy canvas. A black mantilla frames her small face; beads hang from her wrist; she holds...