Word: sashes
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...reach for glamour should not be too difficult, said Anne, faithfully following her script, since the quality runs in the family: "My grandfather, [Architect] Frank Lloyd Wright, wore only a red sash on his wedding night. That's glamour...
...almost imperceptibly, the merchants' movements assume a nervous, nearly furtive air. They start at the slightest sound--the clank of hoof on manhole, the raccous grate of a newly varnished sash, the quick scratch of a mongoose at a loose floorboard...
...funeral, Mayor Coëne, wearing his tricolor sash of office, stepped forward to read an oration. Said he: "I salute the mortal remains of Gaston Depestel . . . who has died without ideals in the unjust war of the Viet Nam, for the armament makers and the plantation owners . . ." At that point, an Indo-China war veteran put his hand over the mayor's manuscript and said quietly: "Rien de ça Monsieur le Maire" (Cut it out, Mister Mayor...
...dreamer. Colonel Arbenz is a soldier, whose road to the presidency was suddenly cleared one day in July 1949 when the popular favorite for the succession, Army Boss Francisco Araña, was cut down by assassins' bullets. In his first speech, after donning the blue & white sash of office last week, he was guarded and noncommittal. His new cabinet reflected the left-center coalition that had elected him. As his foreign minister he picked a left-winger, but he also assigned an important place as minister without portfolio to a leading antiCommunist...
...delightful personality. On most of her public appearances, she is superbly dressed . . . Yet, [in this case] . . . the hat is too large, too heavy and too drooping . . . The skimpy cape is both broadening and shortening. The dark edging makes the dress look like a dressing gown with the sash undone ... All in all, a misguided effort that will not enhance our growing reputation as a fashion-conscious nation...