Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept.11...
Arsenic and Old Lace (Warners) is a reasonable facsimile of the Broadway comedy about two Brooklyn spinsters who make a hobby of dosing old men with arsenic. By inverting the traditional concept of murder as a crime of passion and turning it into an ingenuous diversion for pixillated old ladies, wholesale slaughter is made an innocently delightful subject...
...enormous iron urns, to view the treasures inside: crystal-and-brass chandeliers, a heaving sea of mildewed objects, corniced walnut wardrobes, marble-topped bureaus-some 10,000 numbered items, stacked in the halls, standing in the serried, airless bedrooms. A dozen garlanded chinaware cuspidors clustered beside a bundle of lace curtains. Metal Indians and painted washstands stood on the vast drawing-room floor, while a gleeful Saratoga schoolboy banged at a bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against a parlor wall. There were objects nobody could explain, such...
Taken tangle by tangle, Knots is instructive and often amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...
Scene I: Washington. At that White House meeting were present the Democratic National Chairman, strapping Bob Hannegan, Chicago's Boss and Mayor, Ed Kelly, and four others. The visitors had political business with the President; they wanted to name over the various Vice Presidential possibilities : Henry Wal lace, Truman, "Assistant President" Jimmy Byrnes, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Senator Alben Barkley. The President indicated, in each case, that it would be a pleasure to run with the man named. It was said that tears came to Franklin Roosevelt's eyes when Jimmy Byrnes was mentioned; everyone there...