Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nimble Thimbles. Rarely was there a bride without a dozen quilts packed in her hope chest. Before her wedding, her friends would gather in a quilting bee to make a friendship-album quilt in which each did a special, signed design. The art was not reserved completely for the distaff; one Charles Pratt of Philadelphia made 33 Biblical picture quilts, each composed of 30,000 half-inch squares. Still, bees buzzed mainly with the gossip of busy women clustered around the quilting frame, darting their threads to their chatter...
...designers, Johannesburg's Francois Joubert and Willem Taylor, both 27, say that 900 distaff Dillons in Kansas City, Chicago, Paris and Gibraltar have ordered the bra, which at $4.55 (including detachable covers in colors, as well as lessons in the handling of guns) has attracted 525 South African buyers since late last year. Joubert and Taylor are urging local fashion houses to manufacture special blouses for easier holster attachment, arguing "a figure that attracts an admirer can attract an attacker...
...Vellucci fails to act, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, chairman of the Finance Committee, appears poised to move. The Council's only distaff member declared...
...widely their techniques may vary, Europeans from Barcelona to Bialystok in recent years have taken to hand kissing with fervor and frequency unmatched in their history. After World War II, the custom seemed in decline. But today, men of virtually every class and calling on the Continent dive for distaff knuckles as assiduously, if not always so expertly, as do the courtiers in a Lehar operetta...
With such sprightly comment, Times Sports Columnist Murray has built a reputation and following that, in just six months, qualifies him as one of the best sportswriters in the U.S. The fan mail comes in from all over, even from women. "I love your column," gushed one distaff Murray fan, "even when I don't know what you're talking about." Wrote another: "For the first time in my life, I'm reading the sports page." Murray has fielded four offers to turn radio or television sportscaster; and after a dozen serious inquiries from other papers...