Word: shawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridegroom had shaken hands with his father-in-law, first of 101 guns boomed out. Waiters rushed to the distinguished guests with trays of rose water and honey. All but the two officiating sheiks received solid gold candy boxes as wedding souvenirs. The two sheiks each got a Cashmere shawl...
...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one night last week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all speakers of the evening, Erika Mann had the simplest and to many listeners the most significant words to justify the second American Artists' Congress. They were a message from her father, Thomas Mann: "One frequently hears it said that the artist should stick to his own craft, and that...
Following St. Paul's admonition to the Corinthians, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins its womenfolk to cover their heads at worship, if only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Louisville, Very Rev. E. Erie Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before...
...flexible medium combine to remove the faint creakiness that Night Must Fall had on the stage, make it a powerfully striking example of how a mood of horror can be created by understatement. Good shot: Olivia courteously giving Danny the price tag which she has just removed from the shawl he is presenting to Mrs. Bramson as an heirloom, from his mother...
...identity for herself-that of Livvy, her imaginary niece. Artifice having restored the necessary ringlets, dashing Valentine conspires to his own defeat. After succumbing to her petticoat ambush, he saves the reputation of Miss Throssel by sending home the coquettish Livvy in the form of a bolster in shawl and bonnet, under the scandal-hungry eyes of all Quality Street...