Word: shawled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once, her enemies began to heckle as she got to the high notes of her second aria in Traviata. Callas tore off her shawl, stepped to the front of the stage, glared directly at her tormentors. With reckless ferocity, she lit into one of opera's most perilous arias. If she had made a mistake, it would have been fatal. Instead, she sang with immaculate and unearthly beauty. Five times she was called back by the deliriously happy audience, five times she stood, stony and arrogant, before turning away. On the sixth call, she relented, bowed to everybody except...
...defensive. With next year's elections in mind, the Christian Democrats were dreaming up some vote-getting domestic measures in stead. Usually, at this season of the year, Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer plays his annual spring masquerade as the national miser. He puts on his shawl and oldest pair of shoes, bums a cigarette from his chauffeur and totters onstage to wail that the country is bound for the poorhouse unless he gets a few billions more to balance his budget. This year Schäffer, who bows to no man as a politician, has a tounded...
...ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped her enormous Spanish shawl around Woodward, and the two rumbaed together underneath. Ann fumed up to them, ripped off the shawl, tore Mme. Sainte's dress, slapped her face, slapped Bill, finally had to be forcibly restrained...
...Craftsman. His day does not begin at his desk, but in prayer, for which he dons the traditional black-and-white prayer shawl and straps phylacteries (small leather cases containing texts from...
While Mamie, her mother Elivera Doud and her sister Frances ("Mike") Moore gushed over Martha Washington (Mechlin lace shawl and pink faille dress hand-painted with native North American flowers and insects), Ike went by the Blue Room (as it was in McKinley's time) and the Red Room (Coolidge era). At the end, he impatiently chewed his upper lip and, to hurry his ladyfolk along, called, "Say, come look at Mamie...