Word: lacedly
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...blew, and there was dancing in the streets and singing in the bars. In Ottawa, in a hospital suite declared Dutch territory for the day, to Crown Princess Juliana had been born a 7 lb. 12 oz. daughter, her third. Day after birth the baby was placed on a lace-covered cushion, ceremoniously presented by her father to the registrar, who presently set down her name: Margriet Francisco-Margriet for "daisy." On the cushion was affixed a daisy-shaped jewel sent from London by Grandmother Queen Wilhelmina. Doubtless fixed in the minds of secretly celebrating burghers in The Netherlands...
Yours-for more down-to-the-earth realism, and less lace-pantied surrealism...
...thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver...
...bottles of the elderberry arsonic brew, left over from last fall's party for the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace," will be available in the library for the various and sundry editors of Mother Advocate's rivals...
...every woman who puts on unaccustomed overalls and goes to the factory for the swing shift, another puts on unaccustomed finery (sales of black lace underwear are booming) and travels to places she has never been before to be with her man in uniform. And for every woman who takes up a new occupation another takes up the oldest occupation-older than the oldest profession-motherhood...