Word: pillbox
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...audience sat rapt and bewitched. Not a feathered toque or a velvet pillbox moved in Boston's Symphony Hall. There was something vastly appealing about the frail, hunched woman as she bent over the keyboard; her playing of Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 was filled with a rare kind of fire, poetry and sadness. Bucharest-born Pianist Clara Haskil, 61, was making her first U.S. appearance in 30 years, with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. When she finished, the hall reverberated to stamping feet and shouts of "Bravo!"' She was called back an un precedented...
Outside the White House on a sunny day, Mamie Eisenhower, wearing a four-leaf-clover pillbox hat that soon became notorious because Ike didn't quite like it ("She's got one I like better"), displayed her newest and fourth grandchild, three-month-old Mary Jean Eisenhower...
...dresses-linens, cottons and silk prints (size 14) in small, muted patterns. On impulse Mamie also tried on some of Steyerman's new over-the-fore-head hats. The upshot, familiar to many a U.S. husband, was that she emerged from Steyerman's with the same black pillbox she had been wearing when she left the Humphrey plantation...
...than nuns' garb. Designed in accordance with Pope Pius XII's plea for more rational, comfortable dress among nuns, the new habit features an oxford grey skirt (slightly flared and coming just below the knee), a loose box jacket, a white Peter Pan-collared blouse, a black pillbox hat, black leather pumps with medium heels, and nylons. Said Postulant Marian Mraz, 25, modeling the new outfit: "We'll be right up to date...
That was the pillbox war that had died with Dienbienphu, and now General Cogny's theme was "consolidation for offensive action elsewhere." So the men of the column hauled down the French and Vietnamese flags; they planted explosives; they withdrew the garrisons (with their furniture and pots and pans) for more useful work in the coming Battle of the Delta. Then the French blew Doaithan and Thanhne to bits...