Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall and red-faced, George Belcher was one of the sights of London. For daytime wear, Artist Belcher chose the tweediest of hunting tweeds or else a funereal black cape and high satin stock. At night he preferred Victorian dinner jackets, lace cuffs, and ruffles. Thus attired, he spent half a century stalking likely subjects through London's foggy streets and second-best bar parlors. All his models, he liked to boast, were amateurs, "taken from life...
...women's fashions and the New Look. As far as the three of them were concerned, the showing went off without a hitch-except for a passing remark by Boyd that one of the elegantly organized models' slip was showing. It turned out that it was a lace-trimmed petticoat-and it was supposed to show...
...many of Mâcon's townspeople, she evidently did. In the public squares, angry crowds cried: "Voilà l'empoison-neuse!" One Paris paper called the case "Atropine and Old Lace" (atropine had been found in the viscera of one victim). But Detective Bascou, finally convinced that Nurse Demussy's ex-husband had lied about her, changed his tack. The detective decided that the solution must be a medical one, and began to study the hospital's post-operative treatment of gynecological patients...
...took five years of energetic fence-mending, in every corner of the world where British troops were stationed, and two years of peace, for the public to forgive & forget. Last week, in a rollicking, fullblown show for BBC, "Our Gracie" was back, as bouncy as ever, in black lace, with her hair a halo of tight, bleached curls...
...strip has ever matched the pulling power of British Cartoonist Norman Pett's Jane (see cut), the uninhibited comic-stripper who got her start during the war by entrancing British troops, as a sort of Miss Lace without lace or much of anything else. Jane manages to get down to bra and panties at least once a week in London's tabloid Daily Mirror. Fleet Street agrees that she is the only strip that actually boosts a paper's sales. Yet Jane flopped in the U.S. last year: "I'm afraid," said a British syndicate salesman...