Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cissie gave Bootsie a shrewd buildup, decorated the column each week with cuts of Bootsie in a different hat. As madly hatted as Hedda Hopper, Mrs. Cassini has a collection of 50, mostly John-Frederics jobs, sometimes makes her own from pieces of curtain or lace tablecloths...
...model when he was 14. I don't know why he wanted to join the police force," she added. "But then he always hated that inside work, and he loves to listen to detective and quiz programs. We bet on them. He owes me a black slip with lace." Mrs. Horan flushed...
...Pottery, china clay, hosiery, furniture, boots & shoes, carpets, domestic glassware, jute, linoleum, wool, jewelry & silverware, cutlery, heavy clothing, lace...
...living), in its feminine lightness, and in its sharp summings-up of occasional characters-such as prematurely balding Lord Fort William, whose "hair seemed to be slipping off backwards, like an eiderdown in the night," and Linda's newborn infant, which lay "deep down among the frills and lace . . . a howling orange in a fine black...
Neither is subtle, complex or daring. Whitney is a well-read man who likes to lace his speeches with literary allusions. Johnston (nobody calls him Al) is a plain, blunt man who almost never makes a speech, puts on a front of gruff irascibility...