Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scholar belonging to the College shall wear any Gold or Silver Lace, cord, or edging upon their Hats, Jackets, or any other Parts of their Cloathing, nor any Gold or Silver Brocades in the College or Town of Cambridge. Whoever shall offend against this law shall be fined not exceeding twenty Shillings...
...stiff note in which Her Majesty's Government demanded that the German Government make its press mind its manners. Scheduled to appear at the gala were some broad Dutch comedians famed for an act in which the chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain uniform and smudge mustache as Adolf Hitler. At the last minute this political Dutch clowning was killed off the program and substituted were some harmless non-political British buffoons...
...report second-hand accounts of an elaborate bridge party she gave for a large group of ladies. The guests appeared wearing gaudy pajamas and blonde wigs if their hair had not been bleached as had their hostess's. Queen Helen outdid all of them by wearing black lace pajamas over white tights. On another occasion she courted future votes by inviting members of a victorious University of Southern California football team to Magnolia Farm and treating them to a seven-course dinner that began with nine rounds of cocktails and included all the champagne the happy athletes would drink...
...Woman Rebels (RKO). Ever since Katharine Hepburn set the cinema industry by the ears with Little Women, her employers have been trying doggedly to discover just what elusive factor, added to the stock formula of Lavender & Old Lace, made that picture so sensationally successful. A Woman Rebels represents an effort to discover if the element was the revolt of a young girl against convention. That the experiment is conducted with painstaking care only makes it the more apparent that the hypothesis is faulty...
What the well dressed Harvard man were a hundred years ago--a fancy, colored calico, "toga" trimmed with lace--was revealed for the first time when, the only known remaining example of the strange garb was placed on display in the Harvard University Library...