Word: shawl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth Christmas that the Hoovers had spent at sea. The ship's carpenter had built a fireplace with red electric lights for coals. Capt. Train presented Mr. Hoover with a pair of binoculars, Mrs. Hoover with a blue and white Brazilian shawl. There was a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus. The Santa Claus (a disguised newspaper correspondent) hailed the President-Elect as "greatest fisherman," and presented him with a gift which he said would prove valuable. It was a toy fish labelled Congress. Mr. Hoover asked what bait was needed for this fish. Soft soap, said Santa...
Jarnegan is the performance, provided by Wynne Gibson, of a dipsomaniac star arriving at the peak of her intoxication; hearing noises in the night, she surmises that the owls are after her; with puzzled insolence she abuses an extra girl and wraps herself wildly in a black lace shawl...
Painter Sir John went to his wife whom he often uses as a model, told her she would have to sit again, painted her with a shawl over her head...
Married. Richard Barthelmess, famed cinemactor (The Patent Leather Kid, Broken Blossoms, The Bright Shawl) and onetime husband of Dancer Mary Hay: to Mrs. Jessie Haynes Sargeant, 27, of New York; at Reno...
...spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving in her hands like a bright tenuous flag, and who had wrapped life closely about her like a brilliant shawl, one summer day tied a red scarf around her throat and stepped into her automobile. As she drove along the roads that sloped down to the sea, a warm slow wind fumbled at her scarf and blew it back so that it stretched and flapped along the body of the car. Then...