Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were up some 300% for the first three months of the year. Lingerie and wedding-gown makers call the past and present seasons the "most hectic" they have ever known. Formal bridal gown sales, up 250% last year, continue to equal 1941 records. Lingerie merchants, who usually save black lace garments for Christmas sale to men for women, found themselves sold out of their "get-your-man-underwear" last summer-prospective brides bought it for themselves...
...Messieurs, la Cour." In a long-sleeved red robe with a jabot of lace at the throat and a cloak with ermine neck piece, the Chief Justice of the special tribunal, velvety Pierre Caous, took his seat. Flanking him were four other justices, an admiral, an Air Force general, glittering with war decorations. At the order "Introduisez les accuses," the five defendants filed in. First was Jacomet, a humble, whipped-dog expression on his lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest...
...title, "The Old Ladies" lacks the pizazz of "Hellzapoppin'" and "Arsenic and Old Lace" to draw the crowds. That a play of that name is being produced in a tiny theatre holding at most a hundred people, by a tiny company of hardworking semi-pros, might arouse at most a little sympathetic interest--not enough, however, for a trip into town to look for that theatre at 36 Joy Street (off Beacon Street a block west of the State House.) Only, therefore, the probable truth that "The Old Ladies" is the most gripping play that has appeared on a Boston...
Governor Arthur H. James of Pennsylvania will give up his hightop, hook-lace shoes, to conserve leather...
...play and deserves great credit for the lively dialogue), is very pleasant as the husband even though he finds it difficult to remain in character. On the whole "Mr. and Mrs. North" is very good light entertainment especially for reading period. But if you have seen "Arsenic and Old Lace" you may find that homicide is hilarious only once...