Word: shawled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Town Hall was cold and empty one morning last week, as a small, dark-haired woman deposited her mink coat and shawl on a stage table, set up her metronome, covered her shoulders with a sweater, and sat down at the concert grand. For the next two hours she worked from page to page of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata, starting at dead-slow tempo, one hand at a time, working up to half tempo, patiently repeating certain figures again and again, uncovering little melodies hidden in the passagework, testing the spaces between chords for the precise...
Lawrence P. Trainor, organizer, Boston local, Socialist Workers Party (nee Trotskyites) continued. "McCarthy is not through, even if he isn't the Republican hero he was in 1952 . . . he is speaking for all the incipient fascists. American imperialism is at the cross-roads!" A middle-aged woman in a shawl nodded. "That, in turn," Trainor barked, "calls for a counterpoint turn of the Marxists. Living life demands an answer. . .that is reality and reality will face us, even if we don't face...
...doing nothin'--why that's the most useless job there is. And all these salesmen tramping the same street, selling the same damn thing on the same damn day. Why--." "But they're not unemployed, are they?" said the girl. "Gimme another question," said Trainor. The woman in the shawl scowled at the girl while Trainor was engrossed in the subtleties of another question. "It don't take an Einstein," he replied, "to figger out that when the workers find out what it's all about, they aren't gonna take it lying down . . . some of them learn slow...
...spinsters' brother, Sterling, promptly bought the Prophet a $3,900 Lincoln as a token of gratitude. The two women decided to give him something even more wonderful-a full-length let-out white mink coat with a raglan flare-back, shawl collar, scarlet silk lining and deep flap pockets lined with velvet. This took some time. The girls had to scrape up $2,000 for a down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned...
...pumped a trombone, trying vainly to look as little like a bank clerk as possible. By the curb, a small aging woman held out her tambourine. An S.A. cap sat on her stringy grey curls; her eyes all pity, piety and purity. Thin shoulders were covered by a ragged shawl and she wore galoshes. Not a pair of eyes passed she didn't peer into, not a pair didn't falter; not a hand didn't change into her tambourine. Christmas spirit went with every "Bless...