Word: shawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rachael grew pale, wept. Her mother, her face hidden by a shawl, screamed hoarsely and fled the courtroom. Nathan Goldberg sobbed: "She is dead for me. I have nothing to do with her no more. Her three dresses hang in the closet. Tomorrow I burn them and we sit shivah. She is dead from...
Mahatma Gandhi announced that when he attends the Federal Structures Committee meeting in London next September he will live in an East End poorhouse called Kingsley Hall and will appear before the King barefoot and clad in loincloth and shawl, weather permitting...
...Troy were successful but they found no Homeric treasure. The day before digging was to stop the two Schliemanns, standing together, saw the glint of gold. With great presence of mind they dismissed the workmen, finished the digging themselves, smuggled the treasure away in Sophia's red shawl. Technically all such finds belonged to the Turkish Government, but Schliemann got safely away with it, finally gave it to the Berlin Museum...
...from the effects. But not without telling him a few things that leave his life a desert. The Author- Andre Paul William Gide, reputed the most powerful figure in contemporary French literature, looks like a lean and sinister clown, loves mystery, theatrics. Bald, he often wears a skullcap, a shawl over his shoulders. His early books were such immediate failures he thought seriously of abandoning writing. At 40 (he is now 61) he learned English and translated Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman into French. Gide's chief claim to notoriety is his sympathetic exposition of homosexuality. His consuming curiosity...
...authors. His carefully ornamented, politely civilized style usually cloaks a plot that might seem melodramatic in a more homespun dress. He lives in West Chester, Pa., is married, and is a good hand at collecting antiques. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Java Head, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl, Linda Condon...