Word: shawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr in an upbeat All or Nothing at All. In a white fringed shawl Songstress Carroll sat with a single spot shining on her tawny face while she sang a moving set of folk songs with powerfully restrained drama. Later she was on her feet again belting out a Heat Wave with the raucous abandon of a Merman. In the course of the long...
...skirt and blazer set. Most popular are clothes adorned with raccoon. Says Angela Kroll, buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue: "We can sell anything with raccoon." Best & Co. is doing a big business in detachable raccoon collars ($10.95 for a 14-in. Peter Pan collar, $15.95 for a 31 -in. shawl collar), and Chicago teen-agers are buying up sailor hats topped with raccoon pompons...
...early service at Milwaukee's Beth Jehuda Synagogue, where he is assistant rabbi. Medical school classes began at 8 a.m., and here real complications set in. His full, black beard was a sanitary problem in surgery, requiring special snood-like surgical masks. His tallith katan, a small prayer shawl worn by many Orthodox Jews under their shirts, had to be made of cotton instead of wool -which might set off a static spark and ignite the anesthetic in an operating room...
...following morning, under a starlit sky, Vinoba Bhave's disciples rose quietly and loaded their meager belongings in a truck. Ninety minutes later, wearing a grandmotherly shawl over his dhoti, Bhave marched briskly out of the schoolhouse and headed straight down the village road at a brisk pace, looking neither to right nor left. A man with a lantern raced ahead of Bhave to light his way. Following after came some three dozen wraithlike women secretaries and husky disciples-including the barefoot son of a wealthy cotton-mill owner, a nephew of India's Finance Minister, and landowners...
...practice, there was no eulogy. James Michael Curley had lived a long life, improved the lot of many, been genuinely loved by many, and presumably he had died in God's grace. But it was better, looking back over his 60-year political career, to let the gentle shawl of legend disguise the hard shape of history...