Word: shawled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...still plays in the family troupe), Captain Billy is a hard-voiced, articulate showman who wrote a book about the Bryants, sounds off on the theatre in the Sunday New York Times. He got the idea of doing Carmen long ago, when he found a Spanish shawl in a box of the cheap candy which he, like the rest of his troupe, peddles between acts. Captain Billy worked up his Carmen when the Zoo opera announced its production. His working up consisted of throwing away nearly all of Bizet's melodious, phony-Spanish music, nearly all of Prosper Merimee...
Theory I explains Franklin Roosevelt as the Great Improviser, impetuously patching up the irremediable, a dextrous three-shell manipulator, now-you-see-it, now-you-don't man. Theory II makes him a sitting Lincoln, streamlined for 1940, wearing a club tie instead of a shawl...
...difficulties of these self-governing units. But there was also increasing trouble in a corner of the Empire which does not run itself, and here London could and did decidedly act. At New Delhi, lavish capital of India, a little skinny man dressed in homespun cotton garments, with a shawl drooped around his shoulders, passed through the imposing gates of The Viceroy's House...
...inner office he was alone, save for the familiar things around him: the tidy desk; his old couch, black beneath a knitted blue shawl, two white pillows and an Army blanket (which he sometimes wore like a toga on cold afternoons in the park) ; on the wall, a framed copy of Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell; on the mantel, two ancient lamps and a cane, carved of wood from Borah Peak in Idaho. The secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted...