Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christ to agree to call on him today as one rings someone up on the telephone. Indeed, it would seem to me unworthy to call on him without having first put myself in a state to hear him . . . There are some who would consult Christ to know how to lace a pair of shoes; I cannot; I will...
Long after he had settled in Philadelphia, his fellow townsmen regarded Stephen Girard as a very strange fellow. He was a Frenchman-a squat, swarthy ex-sea captain with one blind eye, an insane wife, and a taste for gold lace and velvet breeches. He smuggled opium and traded in rum, but he named his ships after the Philosophes. Though he became one of the richest Americans of his time, he boasted that he could still eat on 20? a day. Philadelphians called him, among other things, a miser...
Born. To Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse, 55, pun -loving half of the writing-producing Lindsay & Grouse team (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and second wife Anna Erskine Grouse, 32, daughter of Author John Erskine: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Lindsay Ann Grouse. Weight...
...statuette, known as a "silver lady," looked very much like a female Hollywood Oscar. The radiant young lady who clasped it looked, in her gown of turquoise slipper satin and black lace, like a composite photograph of Merle Oberon and Joan Bennett. For the third successive year, Margaret Lockwood last week shakily thanked British moviegoers for electing her Britain's most popular cinemactress. (John Mills, star of Great Expectations, was voted most popular cinemactor; Anna Neagle's The Courtneys of Curzon Street, the most popular film...
...Manhattan dress designer named Wilma announced a new specialty-wedding dresses for divorcees. She suggested a pink silk shantung suit for the second marriage, a black silk faille suit with a crystal embroidered lace blouse for the third. Said Wilma: "The bride's sophistication should increase in direct ratio to the marriage multiple...