Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stitches. But there were few complaints. One day was typical of any day at San Diego. In the orthopedic ward men with arms in casts or limbs elevated in the air by counterweights tried doggedly to write, wove lace doilies, made sketches of battle scenes they remembered. Some with wounded arms and hands played poker while Navy hospital corpsmen stood by to handle the cards...
Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...
Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...
Officers' Mess. In Washington, the Internal Revenue Bureau ruled as legitimate business expenses, and therefore deductible on income tax returns, all "scrambled eggs" (visor scrolls), gold braid, lace, "chicken guts" (shoulder aiguillets) and chin straps...
...nudging Fay for honors is Josephine Hull, fresh from "Arsenic and Old Lace," and still possessed of a fresh and effervescent enough touch to carry some of "Harvey's" more lagging moments to an agreeable conclusion. Miss Hull is Vita; she loves her brother Elwood but that pooka has been scaring away all her guests. She tries to deposit Elwood in a straight jacket at Chumley's Rest, so she can forget the pooka and climb the social ladder with her niece, Myrtle. Naturally, she too becomes attached to Harvey before the affair is over...