Word: fancywork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...