Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...altar had been presented by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady; it was made of pure white Carrara marble. Above the altar was a marble statue of the little Saint. The altar is surrounded by a Florentine framework of marble chiseled as fine as lace. Five hundred people came to the consecration, which lasted for two hours and which was unusual in that the Cardinal blessed the entire altar instead of the altar stone alone...
...thought as he stood there in his white and gold lace, with his air of fine and simple dignity that there had never been an arrival more momentous-never anyone on whom more conflicting emotions were centered, hopes and doubts and fears, but above all confidence in his personal integrity and wisdom. . . . While I made my curtsy, it was all I could...
...front of the room and would both let the student know his fate sooner and relieve the section men of the difficulty of correcting the papers. But best of all, and most saving of energy and time, would be the practice of sending to applicants for admission a lace handkerchief with the last day of his residence at Cambridge crocheted in it by the wives of the deans. Indeed, it might not be long before the deans, along with such useless masculine habits as reasoning, could be dispensed with altogether...
...Once I was taking the part of Marguerete in 'Faust'; the performance was in Montreal and I had been given a beautiful fancy petticoat to wear. Well, I have to kneel down and pray in one act there, and my heel caught in that beautifully complicated lace netting. When I started to get up, the lace began in tear and this impromptu tail trailed after me as I strode across the stage. The audience was laughing, they had seen the predicament I was in, so, keeping on singing. I just stooped down and tore off the entire reel of lace...
...Morganatic marriage. But not this time. There is a girl, to be sure. She is practically seduced, to start the plot. And by the prince, too, who is promptly murdered. The rest of the play is a detective story with Lionel Atwill as the detective in gold lace. Mr. Atwill strutted a good deal...