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Once, all a girl needed to get a monogram was a first and last name. Today, it is likely to cost her as much as $30 (imprinted on a scarf) to $475 (on luggage), and the initials aren't even...
...Between those parentheses, she ransacked the temples of Hellenic culture, switched from dresses to togas and from shoes to scandals. In Amer ica, the bourgeois dismissed her as a wan ton. It was in Europe that she won her recognition - and lost her life when her trailing scarf wound around a racing-car wheel. Her last words seem written in art-nouveau script: "Adieu, mes amis, je vais à la gloire...
...ears, fingers, heads, or any other parts of the body left uncovered, and so they dress with a ferocious passion, trying to save their lives. When they are finally bundled into two pairs of pants, five or six sweaters, a few sets of gloves and mittens, and an enveloping scarf or hat, they climb into the car and bravely set off for the groves...
...London room, bullied by his landlady, harassed by bailiffs, spitting vitriol at the obdurate world. Rolfe's real life was a dramatic contrast to the Vatican splendor of his Cinderella dream, and McCowen makes the most of it. Head cocked and shoulders hunched into a grubby purple scarf, he alternately whines with self-pity and whirls arrogantly on his persecutors, slashingly vituperative...
...work ing as a forest ranger, got local mer chants to contribute fire-fighting equipment and taught his men how to use it as well as the Bren guns he scrounged. Early in May, he led his 500 irregulars, smartly uniformed in black shirt and trousers, with a yellow scarf at the neck, on a 2½-hour parade through Phu Vinh. That display produced an additional 50 volunteers, and today his force has swollen to over...