Word: scarfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panned. In Milwaukee, a little boy on a bus tugged at the scarf wrapped around his head, finally uncovered a shiny aluminum pan clamped fast to his head...
Died. Ambrose R. Clark, 64, correct, impeccable dean of ushers at Manhattan's Riverside Church, creator of the traditional ushers' uniform (cutaway, striped trousers, scarf and boutonniere) ; of a heart attack; in Fayetteville...
...phanie Chaminade had been bedridden with a bone disease for more than a decade. Deprived of her royalties by the German occupation (her Jewish publishers in Paris had been liquidated), she died in comparative obscurity. The era that her fragile, saccharine little piano pieces (most famed: The Scarf Dance) represented had long since closed. Hers had been the age of rubber plants, stereoscopic views, and parlor trances over Ethelbert Kevin's The Rosary...
...Chaminade's music included Nellie Melba and John Philip Sousa, who liked to play the tiny piano pieces in full brass-band arrangements. At the height of Chaminade's vogue, in the early 1900s, her U.S. feminine admirers had formed more than 200 "Chaminade Clubs." Her Scarf Dance ended by selling over five million copies...
...school mates, neat, precise, churchgoing, independent, heartbreakingly lonely, she lived alone in the mansion she inherited, an exemplification of the remoteness of the culture she taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class. She earned her $2,100 a year. At night, after she had graded papers, she cooked a chop and potatoes, carried her supper into the big empty dining room, lit the chandelier, put a book beside the plate, and read...