Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn of two old ladies' poisonings that are most playgoers' meat (TIME...
...Magazine), author (Keys to Success), was sued for a separation by his wife Adelaide after 28 years. She charged that her husband is a "bully, egotist, tyrant and bore," and that she had to "draw his bath, lay out his clothes, button his shirt and underwear, cut his toenails, lace his shoes and open his car door...
...referring here to the countless wires for flower decorations, the millions of long pins necessary to keep the hats in place, the huge tonnage of glue for fixings, the untold quantity of rubber and elastic bands sometimes used instead of pins, the miles of lace going into veils...
...Lace" curtains that will not have to be dried on stretcher frames...
...Critic George Jean Nathan, following his own fetishes, urged that "once a girl strips, she should be revealed not in bare anatomy but in a very sheer thin blue dress with a white lace collar...