Word: shawl
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...drug for her tortured nerves, she indulged in her orgies of buying things . . . things she could never use, for which she could never hope to pay." In four months she bought 300 pairs of gloves. She paid $3,000 for earrings and a pin, $5,000 for a shawl. She once told her seamstress she owed $27,000. "Does Mr. Lincoln know?" she was asked. Said Mrs. Lincoln...
...door to whisk them out of jail and back to work. But she was also a catalyst that brought underworld and police department into an inevitably corrupt amalgam. At her retirement the San Francisco Chronicle waxed nostalgic: "The Old Lady . . . will take to her rocking chair, draw her shawl about her. . . ." But many a citizen thought simply: "Good riddance...
...still plays in the family troupe), Captain Billy is a hard-voiced, articulate showman who wrote a book about the Bryants, sounds off on the theatre in the Sunday New York Times. He got the idea of doing Carmen long ago, when he found a Spanish shawl in a box of the cheap candy which he, like the rest of his troupe, peddles between acts. Captain Billy worked up his Carmen when the Zoo opera announced its production. His working up consisted of throwing away nearly all of Bizet's melodious, phony-Spanish music, nearly all of Prosper Merimee...
Theory I explains Franklin Roosevelt as the Great Improviser, impetuously patching up the irremediable, a dextrous three-shell manipulator, now-you-see-it, now-you-don't man. Theory II makes him a sitting Lincoln, streamlined for 1940, wearing a club tie instead of a shawl...
...difficulties of these self-governing units. But there was also increasing trouble in a corner of the Empire which does not run itself, and here London could and did decidedly act. At New Delhi, lavish capital of India, a little skinny man dressed in homespun cotton garments, with a shawl drooped around his shoulders, passed through the imposing gates of The Viceroy's House...