Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feverish bustle, anxious conjecture filled Buckingham Palace on election day this week. Outside, London wallowed in a yellow pea-soup fog. Below stairs, Royal scullery, parlor and chamber maids made no secret of their voting intentions as they hustled into bonnet and wrap, groped in a body out the fogbound back gate. Two footmen, the Palace womenfolk considered, were the only possible waverers. They had expressed Socialist opinions at the height of a servants' ball last year, but not since. One of these very footmen brought to the Royal study the latest newspapers for which George V repeatedly buzzed...
...preparatory school art collection: Andover's Addison Gallery of American Art, now installed in its new Georgian building. In the nine sky-lit gallery rooms are some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West...
...heard the morning stars when they sang together. I saw Thor gather in the rainbows to wrap about the dying storm; I walked with Caesar through the three parts of Gaul and I listened to Virgil when he sang his Aeneid when I was told I was to introduce this...
...year-old Bryan Untiedt had saved all but five of 21 children from death-by-freezing when their school bus was marooned 36 hours in a Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6). What impressed the President most was the way Bryan had stripped off his own clothes to wrap around his shivering schoolmates; how he had kept the youngsters from falling into a frozen sleep. Last week Bryan lay in a hospital bed at Lamar, Colo, painfully recovering from frozen hands and feet (they will not have to be amputated) when President Hoover invited him to the White House...
...company's other actresses, not excepting Greta Garbo. She is a salesgirl sent to jail for shoplifting by the falsely pious testimony of her employer. When she gets out she marries her employer's son for revenge. Best shot: Miss Crawford in a white evening wrap...