Word: shirtfronts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King in the Balkans, including Bulgarian rosewater and pots of a kind of jam he liked in Greece. As son went in to dine with devoted mother a crowd, cheering outside Buckingham Palace in the deep dusk, glimpsed only the white flash of His Majesty's starched shirtfront, concluded from the low visibility of King Edward's face that he must have become very tanned...
...garden of Mme Cotnareaunu, widow of Perfumer François Coty, on the Avenue Raphael. Old-fashioned dueling pistols were loaded with black powder & ball. On the greensward the seconds stepped off 25 paces. The principals turned up their coat collars lest a spot of white shirtfront give a target...
...axing had occurred. With the backs of their heads shaved bald, the Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer were led in coarse, nondescript prison garb to the blood-caked block from which so many heads now roll in the sawdust. The headsman, incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck and send the blood of a German woman spouting high. According to Nazis, the Baroness von Berg was the first female aristocrat to lose her head to their...
...little pieces of canvas slightly bigger than a man's shirtfront last week raised the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art high in the list of the world's repositories. Bursting with pride Director Herbert Eustis Winlock placed on exhibition the most important purchase the museum has ever made out of its own funds, two panels joined together by hinges, bought after four years of stealthy negotiation from the Soviet Government: "The Crucifixion" and the "Last Judgement," generally attributed to Hubert van Eyck. Belittlers have insisted that the small panels (each...
...several women but he was shy of them, loved his bachelor freedom more. In Vienna where he lived his last 30 years he went around in a threadbare alpaca coat, trousers which he cut off above the ankle. He seldom wore a collar, spread his long beard over his shirtfront so that no one would know the difference. Cuffs were a joke. So were socks (he usually went barelegged). So were fatuous admirers on whom he would turn ferociously...