Word: sackclothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ashes were "dispersed in the gentle winds of a Florentine May"; the city might have donned sackcloth to go with them, but instead, it quickly reverted to its old ways. Today, a simple plaque marks the place where Savonarola was burned; few tourists ever notice it in the pavement, are drawn instead to a spot only a short distance away, where an array of nude marble statues seem to look ironically down at the inconspicuous marker. Dominicans have made several attempts-the last only five years ago-to have their hero canonized. But sainthood is unlikely, say Vatican spokesmen, because...
...About a modern, grey-flannel Job reduced to sackcloth. Poet Archibald MacLeish's language and logic are on the cloudy side, but the evening is radiant with theatrical excitement...
...Gardner made it her business to set Boston impolitely on its ear. Such a concentric society, she reasoned, would appreciate eccentricity. She chartered a locomotive for a picnic, led a lion on a leash, drank beer at "pop" concerts, and once, during Lent, donned sackcloth and scrubbed the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world...
...Sackcloth Smocks. At Auschwitz, Anne's long hair was clipped and her eyes seemed to grow larger and larger as she grew thinner. Her gaiety disappeared but not her indomitable spirit. The women were divided into groups of five and, though the youngest of her group, Anne became its leader, partly because she was efficient at scrounging necessities. When during cold weather she and the others were reduced to sackcloth smocks, Anne found somewhere a supply of men's long underwear. She even magically produced a cup of coffee for an exhausted prisoner...
Died. Dorothy Sebastian, 50, oldtime (1925-32) cinemactress (Sackcloth and Scarlet, Our Dancing Daughters) and onetime (1930-36) wife of William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd, with whom she appeared in His First Command, The Big Gamble; of cancer; in Hollywood...