Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furs are used extensively for trimming and edging, but big fur collars are frowned upon. Most amusing fur note is an Astrakhan muff shaped like a dachshund. Hats, also exotic, feature the stovepipe which sits high on the head, the Francois Villon, and the tiny velvet head turban with three and only three feathers. Skirts are split, but not notably longer than last year, varying from floor length to 15 in. above the floor. Trains are conspicuously absent. Predominant dress colors are black, "poison" green, purple...
...tailpiece to this second volume of Engle verse, is the strongest and most maturely poetic achievement in the book, a swift, glamorous and compact running commentary on 300 years of American legend. Weaving back & forth, up & down over the vistas of local mythology, it strikes a genuinely inspirational note. The first poem, ''The Last Whiskey Cup, " strikes the same note. Excerpt...
...Crown Hill Cemetery guards found a note on Dillinger's grave: "I'm going to get her, John. So long...
...extent as to involve the prestige of the Party and of Boss Herriot. Plainly M. Tardieu was playing to disrupt the Cabinet and force a general election which he hoped to win. When M. Chautemps was finally called to confront M. Tardieu he accepted the challenge. "I take note," he declared, "that a member of the Cabinet has accepted responsibility for rupturing the political truce...
...around for something to do he acquired a mistress and fathered a daughter; later with great difficulty (for he was no catch) he made a respectable marriage. A kinsman of his wife's, one Alonso Quijada, had been so disagreeably opposed to the marriage that Cervantes made a mental note of him. When he began Don Quixote it was with the intention of caricaturing this country squire. Foiled in his attempts at a more glorious career, Cervantes turned to letters, published his first book (Galatea), wrote many a play, some of which were staged. While he was frequenting theatrical alleys...