Word: fancywork
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...beautiful that once their shape inspired a style that spread across half of Europe. During the 18th century, painters, sculptors, even candlestick makers all followed the curve of the sea shell. The style was called rococo-itself an onomatopoeic image of the art -from the French word rocaille, meaning fancywork in rocks and shells...
...proved it by naming his first-born son Benjamin Harrison; when his wife gave him twins, he seconded the motion by naming them Everett McKinley and Thomas Reed (after the then Speaker of the House). Father Dirksen died when Everett was nine. He had made a good living painting fancywork on carriages and buggies. But he left little. The family lived in the section called "Beantown," where thrifty immigrants grew beans instead of flowers. Dirksen's mother, a hardy woman who had helped build the wood-frame Second Reformed (Calvinist) Church with her own hands, set her boys...
...possible - that he will take full politi cal advantage of his position as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, perhaps from a strategy conference in London. In London the iron railings in front of the American Embassy are getting a fresh coat of paint and gold trimmings, fancywork denied even to Buckingham Palace since 1939. Said Painter Joby Plumb: "This 'ere gilt paint, it's worth houses. Ain't seen none like this for years...
Another piece of last week's anti-sabotage fancywork turned out to be only embroidery: the alleged capture by twelve-year-old Neddie Collins, of Rye, N.Y. of a Nazi radio spy on Cape Cod. Little Ned wrote his father a letter describing such an incident, Mr. Charles Collins showed it to a local OCD official, who gave it to the press. (TIME, unhappily, fell for it, too.) The Navy traced little Ned, found he had dreamed...
Paroled for a six-month probationary period to her sister, Mrs. John Quigley, of Nyssa, Ore., Lyda had no immediate plans. Declaring that Lyda "embroiders divinely," Mrs. Quigley suggested that she might set her sister up in a fancywork shop. Mrs. Quigley did not suggest a restaurant...