Word: shawled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cleared her gallery's top floor of moderns, to give Manhattanites a rare peek at her old stuff. On exhibition were 27 prize paintings and sculptures, mostly dating from the 19th Century (and from the early Hupmobile raids). Among the standouts: a sad-eyed Woman with Yellow Shawl from Massachusetts, a tapestry-like little Apollo and Marsyas by Edward Hicks, and a Hogarthian Farmhouse Gossip (see cut), signed T. G. Knight, which she had found in Pennsylvania...
Gandhi, dressed in a newly starched khadi loin cloth, with a white cotton shawl over his bare shoulders, drove in a new, green Studebaker to Jinnah's stucco house. Acting the part of Qaed-e-Azam (Head of the Nation), Jinnah sent his secretary to greet Gandhi at his car, waited inside the house for his first private meeting with the Hindu leader in three years...
There was never much doubt about what the Lord intended for Henry Sloane Coffin. As a youngster in New York City, he used a shawl-draped set of kitchen steps for a pulpit from which to deliver a high-pitched sermon to his lawyer-father and family. From such beginnings came the clear, hard-hitting style of preaching that eventually helped to multiply attendance at his fashionable Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board...
...times each day Isherwood repairs to the temple, sits cross-legged between grey-green walls on which are hung pictures of Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, other great religious teachers. The swami enters bareheaded, wearing a long, bright yellow robe that sweeps the floor. He too sits crosslegged, pulls a shawl around him, and for ten minutes meditates in silence. Then in a ringing bass he chants a Sanskrit invocation, repeats it in English, ending with the words, "Peace, Peace, Peace...
...Africa and Italy. His 34 prewar oils were landscapes of California, Texas, Brazil, some still lifes, several portraits. One large canvas pictured a monumental, seated Frieda Lawrence (widow of late great Brit ish Novelist D. H. Lawrence), her chill eyes peering from a heavy face, fringes of her shawl spilling like black blood from...