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...chichi-choked benefit in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel wearing a ready-to-wear number, and copped first prize (a bottle of champagne) as the best-dressed woman of the evening. "Shall I take it off?" cried Mrs. Whitney-and did. But what came off was just an outer skirt. It turned out that you could also wear it as a hood or a cape. Financier Whitney said he was proud...
...historical fact, Caesar and Cleopatra lived together in the most literal sense of the phrase. Cleopatra bore him a son, Caesarion, who was promising enough to be assassinated eventually by order of Octavian. In Shaw's charming fiction, they warily skirt the quagmires of passion while the aging political genius, with rueful avuncular irony, helps to convert the puppet Queen from a fierce child into a woman, ripe for Mark Antony's plucking...
...Skirt. In Vienna, a new ballad, Music from Vienna, wailed an appeal to the slender ghosts of Schubert and Strauss...
...little red skirt when I was a schoolgirl...
...little red skirt, my favorite skirt...