Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recall from the more leisurely days of thumbing through Sears Roebuck catalogues that women seemed to be wearing daring and glamorous undercostumes during that unregimented postwar era. There were gay primary colors and the whole gamut of pastels. There were novel shapes and patterns. Lace had a place; there were ruffles and embroidery. But that was before...
What do we find now? I haven't looked though the catalogue lately but on the family clothesline are plain, brief, lace-less pink panties stretching 12 miles in all directions from Cambridge. No lace, no filmy stuff, no flamboyance, no sequins, no glamour! Just plain, pink underdrawers...
...good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," a pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...
...Vanishing Man. The friendly conference, in Baruch's Manhattan office, lasted three hours. On one side were Wallace and his adviser, alert Philip Hauser of the Census Bureau. On the other: Baruch and his associates, ex-Editorialist Herbert Bayard Swope, Banker John Hancock, Wall Streeter Ferd Eberstadt. Wai. lace, it developed, had based his criticism largely on the advice of a friend of his in UNRRA, who was now abroad. Baruch showed him, point by point, where he was wrong. The upshot of the conference: Hauser and Swope would draft a retraction for Wallace to sign...
...yodel. They also blow ten-foot Alphorns made from fir logs, build houses with high roofs typical of the Swiss Alps, talk a Schweizer-deutsch patois, hang sweet-chiming Swiss bells around the necks of their innumerable brown Swiss cows, and produce vast quantities of Swiss cheese and Swiss lace...