Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average U. S. county there are now about 100 agents of various Government farm agencies (REA, FSCC, SCS, AAA, the Farm Security Administration); farmers' dislike for red tape and regimentation has not decreased; farmers' complaints range from charges that Queen Anne's lace grows on the land set aside from production to the charge that the grain stored in the ever normal granary breeds insects who never were given such a bounty to fatten on before. Since debt is a reality to foreclosure-conscious farmers, fear of the mounting public debt means more than it does...
...plan frustrated by the machinations of a lace-collared fifth columnist, Lord Wolfingham.* (Henry Daniell), Captain Thorpe is clapped into a Spanish galley. There he endures lashings so realistic that a lady tourist in the Warner studio who saw them being administered to Cinemactor Flynn fainted dead away. Just as the captain is about done in, he hears the greatest news in English history, is inspired to take over the ship, race to England, thrust and parry his way through the palace and Lord Wolfingham to warn his Queen in time that the Armada...
...wrote action stories for the pulps, treated scripts for Universal before he was wired for sound. Inspired to take to the air by a broadcast of Alexander Woollcott, he arranged his sportscasts in a pattern as intricate as that of the Town Crier, substituted whipcord for Woollcott's lace. His first sponsor was the proprietor of a chain of chili joints, whose clientele listened with stunned admiration to his high-class composition. From his chili sponsor Baiter got $10 a broadcast, zoomed into the big money within a year...
Ballet dates from the lace-pants centuries, when kings and nobles were its patrons. Modern balletomanes, a tribe with a better-than-average quota of lacy characters, could probably think of likelier patrons of the ballet than Big Business-especially such a big business as Ford Motor Co. Yet at the New York World's Fair, Ford became the ballet's first industrial patron by launching a 17-minute production called A Thousand Times Neigh. A free show, performed twelve times a day in a plushy new $500,000 theatre in the Ford building, the ballet is done...
...first part of the competition will consist of preliminary training in writing stories and headlines, while in the last few weeks candidates will he assigned to important stories and will have every chance to do free lace reporting...