Word: shawl
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Michael's end was sudden. He drifted away from Frossia, landed in a house of prostitution. When the police raided it soon after, Michael saw the procuress watching him steadily, "her heavily lidded eyes strangely noncommittal. It was early in the morning. She stood there in a light shawl and her dressing gown. . . ." She said, "Listen, there is very little food. . . . little room also. So many houses have been burnt down. There is little room for reptiles. The Zoological Gardens were closed down a long time...
This protracted wheedling of Beauty by what Beauty regarded as the Beast might have gone on until Miss Bergman inherited the shawl of Ouspenskaya but for a second Selznick brainstorm. Selznick decided that vociferous blandishments, promises and temptations by cable were still a shade too Hollywood, and quit wearying the wires with them. This was a task, he now realized, for flesh and blood. Considering Miss Bergman's mental picture of an American female executive, the casting of the role was brilliantly lucky. He sent over a particularly tactful lady named Kay Brown. And that did it. Miss Bergman...
...streams, pouring reinforced concrete, installing ornate chandeliers and inserting mosaics. For while Russia's leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration, and then return and tell her village, his people: "This is what we are building for everyone...
Soviet scouts in the outskirts of Stalingrad bagged the season's first typical winter German. His head was wrapped in a woman's shawl looted from some Russian peasant hut. A threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...
Wrinkled old women toasted tacos over glowing charcoal. Children hawked bright clusters of United Nations flags. Clerks, military cadets and women with shawl-draped babes in their arms filled Mexico City's great central square, the Plaza de la Constitución. All eyes focused on the presidential palace. The crowd had heard but the crowd could not believe. Was it possible, even on the 132nd anniversary of Mexico's revolt against Spain, that old and bitter political rivalries could be dissolved in the crisis...