Word: shawls
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...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...
Excavating tombs in Egypt 17 years ago, diggers of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art found the mummy, swathed in heavy wrappings of linen, of a young man of Thebes named Wah. Wearing a gilded and painted mask, a red linen shawl, the mummy of Wah made a bright and cheerful appearance in its clean, neat bandages. The diggers took it back to the museum where it was placed on exhibition...
...contributed by alumnus Hugh Taylor Birch, made from the same casting as the one by Sculptor Emma Stebbins set up in 1865 in front of Boston State House. On the highest knoll of Mann's farm, now college property, the statue shows him standing erect, draped in a shawl which he wore in his farmhouse on wintry days, looking across Glen Helen forest to Antioch College...
...automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave Mercier whose poker-faced wit made power men merry; Holland's young Professor James Van Staveren with curly brown shovel-shaped beard; India's Rai Dahaden Agarwal and his wife Mme Kapoorsundri Agarwal in her embroidered shawl; Lithuania's Jurgis Ciurlys, director of machines of the Lithuanian State Rail ways; Poland's eminent Dr. S. J. Zowski- Zwierzchowski of Warsaw Polytechnic Institute...
...rich Manhattan importer named David Stewart, Isabella Stewart married into a proud Boston family. She delighted, scandalized and tyrannized Back Bay from the early 1860's until her death in 1924. Small, exuberant, handsome, Mrs. Gardner was first painted by John Singer Sargent at 30 in a black shawl. The portrait caused so much talk that she had it put away. That was about the only time she ever bowed to public opinion. She traveled abroad more than anyone else in Boston, bought more dazzling gowns, had more servants and footmen, consorted with actors, artists, musicians, acquired matched pearls...