Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, while Cafe Sportsman Henry J. ("Bob") Topping waited for wife Arline Judge to get her divorce, Lama Turner was busy buying her $30,000 trousseau. For this, her fourth wedding,* she would wear a princess-style gown in beige lace over champagne satin. The lingerie-some $5,000 worth-would include a dozen nightgowns, half of them fingertip length, in flowered chiffon...
...spent her first weekend at Windsor Castle with the royal family. In London she shook 300 hands at a daytime reception (she wore a black hat, scattered with daisies), dined with the U.S. Ambassador, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. She went to Covent Garden (in a black lace dress) to hear La Traviata, and got a thundering ovation as she entered the royal box. She visited the House of Lords, was entertained by the Lord Chancellor, had tea with the Prime Minister. Once as she was entering a London hotel all the men in the crowd outside respectfully...
Whether or not Dolph Samborski's charges can produce a two-game win streak remains to be seen. They will be the underdogs. But they were underdogs when they faced Fort Devens on Thursday. Their 20 hits attest to the fact that the locals can lace their batting shoes tight. Perhaps Crimson bats will provide power this afternoon to back up Ira Godin's pitching. Game time is 3 o'clock...
...good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...
...decorate the flat with red paper bells and ribbon, trim the tree with baubles, set up a little creche with an electric light above it. She had to make certain that the maid set the réveillon table with red-candled silver candelabra and the beautiful lace cloth Madame had crocheted herself 25 years ago. Then there were presents...