Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest living singers." Even with such praise she has remained levelheaded, happiest when with her own people. She could have been roundly feted if she had chosen to remain in Manhattan last week. Instead she preferred to hide away in her mother's Philadelphia home, with its starched lace curtains, its overstuffed furniture, its radio, its fireplace aglow with artificial flames...
...Katharine Hepburn is better looking as a boy than as a woman. Just why, in the plot, she has to become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...
December 16. Up betimes, and put on my red stuff-suit, with a shoulder belt, according to the new style, and the bands of my vest and tunique laced with fine lace, of the color of my suit; and so, very handsome, by coach to nibble a bit at Will's. Here I did meet Sir Samuel Pepys, who greeted me merrily and did tell me some gossip from court, and all the while started at my new suit and I think with envy. Whereupon I did tell him my tailor and it did please him much. Whereupon I sought...
...caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary sizes and complete but compact sets of sacred vessels. (Continued...
...seven years the Blennerhassetts enjoyed their island paradise. In one wing lived a staff of Negro slaves who waited on them hand & foot. In the other, the squire tinkered with his physical experiments. Beautiful Mrs. Blennerhassett, in a habit of red velvet and gold lace, galloped over the island and mainland on horseback or pointed her myopic husband's gun for him on hunting expeditions. And then one day in 1805 Mr. Blennerhassett met a man as eccentric and mercurial as himself, retiring U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr...