Word: shawled
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Painter Sir John went to his wife whom he often uses as a model, told her she would have to sit again, painted her with a shawl over her head...
Married. Richard Barthelmess, famed cinemactor (The Patent Leather Kid, Broken Blossoms, The Bright Shawl) and onetime husband of Dancer Mary Hay: to Mrs. Jessie Haynes Sargeant, 27, of New York; at Reno...
...spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving in her hands like a bright tenuous flag, and who had wrapped life closely about her like a brilliant shawl, one summer day tied a red scarf around her throat and stepped into her automobile. As she drove along the roads that sloped down to the sea, a warm slow wind fumbled at her scarf and blew it back so that it stretched and flapped along the body of the car. Then...
...music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their applause for Naughton & Gold, funny indeed, for the triple-tonguing of Trumpeter Rolfe and his slapstick jazz players...
...England or the wide campuses of America. This was something that long needed saying, if only to give the lie to the "Constant Reader" whose form letter appears about twice a week in the local press, retelling the pathetic tale of the old lady with the black shawl who had to stand up in the subway all the way to Harvard Square...