Word: lacedly
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...midnight, six or seven days a week. Their offices are prissy chambers on the second floor of the old State Department rookery; each has high ceilings, gold-velvet draperies withering around the windows, a fireplace of sickly chocolate marble, festoons of exposed pipe and wiring. Among this lavender & old lace sit the two streamlined gogetters...
Hindside Foremost. Later young Ilka was transferred to a secular school where her popularity depended on whether or not her mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young." As soon as she could, she bought herself a gold lace negligee with pink marabou feathers "of which Mother remarked, with the candor which has always distinguished her, that it was a tart's idea of heaven." Then Mother gave her a choice of more school or a trip to Europe...
...even less respect for British architectural treasures. Over York, Exeter, Norwich on successive nights Göring's Luftwaffe toured, dumping bomb cargo after vindictive bomb cargo on the startled cathedral towns. Another night they visited Bath, left that venerable watering place looking like a piece of old lace, ripped and soiled, but still worn with dignity...
...novelty of women workers in slacks (usually too tight), plant managers are beginning to estimate the contribution women can make: 1) they have greater finger dexterity than men (Westinghouse has known this all along, has used women in electrical assembly since the days of fancy aprons and high lace collars); 2) they are more immune to monotony than men, will keep at a tiresome job long after a man starts hanging around the canteen or water cooler; 3) they excel at inspection work where keen eyes and sensitive fingers often find flaws a man misses (Newton A. Woodworth, maker...
...apiece, a dozen crepe-de-chine-and-lace drawers, worth $18 to $25 each, a pair of silk bloomers worth $15 to $18, "one dozen most exquisitely embroidered satin step-ins" worth $18 to $40 apiece, other costly mentionables...