Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this trip would be especially suitable, or general postgraduate work, or those who want to take probably their only opportunity for travel before they enter business or a profession to see the world before they settle down. After they once become engrossed in business, the opportunity may come too lace in life to be of the greatest good...
There are many pictures which present the peculiar trend which impressionism has taken against the Spanish background, and which is most strikingly represented by the portraits of Zuloaga. Mezquita discards the landscape background and the black lace mantilla, however, in many of his pictures in favor of a more traditional treatment. The subject of one of these, called Paquita by the painter, would be enough to make this vagabond settle down and join the Rotary Club...
...Americans sometimes express their admiration . . . differently from us, that's all. . . . "On the other hand, / would very much like to be described as having the appearance of a lucky stockbroker. To me the terrible adjective 'dainty' is usually applied, as if I were a bit of lace or a frill. Perhaps Mr. Wells wouldn't mind being called 'dainty.' I am willing to exchange...
...putting Mr. G B. Shaw's The Philanderer into rehearsal, attempted to put H actresses into the corsets which art called for by the date of the play, "in the '80's." Bitterly the daughters of a new freedom complained to the director, and would not lace themselves "into straitjackets. The costumes were altered, realism being abandoned...
...Councillor, Mayor, State Legislator, Lieutenant-Governor, Governor, Vice President ?and which, as President, he owns. He had come that he might see, and that his wife might see a sternly sweet old lady. Elmira, mother of Grace Goodbue. Thin white hair gathered closely about her head, broad white lace neatly pinned about throat, an erect figure in which much strength remains-that is what one would have seen had he steepped indoors with the President...