Word: scarf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders met with settled purpose. Inside their huge Pandal electric fans hummed. They had the unprecedented extravagance to provide chairs for everyone. They opened their meeting with terrific trumpet blasts. A band played Marching Through Georgia. Crowds surged on Gandhi when he arrived in his loincloth, a narrow white scarf around his neck. Twice he lost his glasses. Each time his admirers tried to put them back on for him. Momentarily forgetting nonviolence, he swung his fists to ward off the overzealous. Inside the Pandal, Gandhi spoke, cross-legged from a couch, into a microphone. A friend explained...
...Charlotte Koehler, The Netherlands' Cornelia Otis Skinner, has flaunted her way into a concentration camp by reading overtones of hatred and scorn for the Nazis into her dramatic sketches. To acknowledge applause she coyly waved a scarf (orange) at her audience...
...woman was identified as Mrs. Susie Reich, a Polish refugee. Someone had overpowered her and stolen her jewelry, and the noise of her struggling had been drowned by the radio. Adhesive tape had been plastered as a gag over her face and her head wound up in a flowered scarf and a Paisley muffler. She had suffocated. Police rounded up Eli, Madeline and Cullen...
...every costume the feminine audience could wish, from breech clout to dress suit. Prepossessing young Macdonald Carey is the editress' eventual sweetheart. And Danny Kaye is very funny as a pansy fashion photographer who in true Cecil Beatonish style photographs a suit of armor with a blue chiffon scarf wrapped around its metal neck and stuffed doves perched on its shoulders. In the circus dream he scores the comic hit of the show with a jabberwockian song consisting entirely of the names of Russian composers...
...sort of army of non-fighters who must take their punishment and hold -with self-help and Government help. Among the other millions of London housewives who no longer bother with hats or have lost them amid the debris of smashed homes, Mrs. Winston Churchill tied a spotted scarf over her head and went about the streets with the Prime Minister. "Now, there's a lydy for you!" chirped an appreciative cockney...