Word: parasolled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week Sisowath's body remained in the urn. Then priests removed it, washed and dressed it in royal robes, hung over its heart the medal of the order of The Million Elephants and the White Parasol, placed the body in a more impressive...
...between, Director Garnett fashioned the second episode in Universal's resuscitation of drowsy Marlene Dietrich. Traipsing through the islands of the East Indies with a trollop's parasol and two larcenous bodyguards (Broderick Crawford and Mischa Auer), she encounters a well-groomed wing of the U. S. Navy, casts languorous glances at a promising lieutenant, sings a dolorous chant beginning: "See those shoulders broad and glorious? See that smile? That smile's notorious. You can bet your life the man's in the Navy,"* at a cafe conducted by wheezing Billy Gilbert...