Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the count ordered a diamond neck lace worth $48,700 from a Vichy jeweler. The jeweler took the precaution of calling the count's bank. The count has little or no money, said the bank. The jeweler got in touch with the police. The count buzzed swiftly out the chateau gates in the station wagon and vanished...
Suddenly the Israeli Arabs fell silent as those on the Jordan side of the wire sang a mournful song. The bridal procession, just about to turn away, halted. As the song faded, the gun-toting border guards of both sides all at once seemed to have shoelaces to lace up or some other reason for averting their eyes. Quickly Zariphe reached across the barbed wire to Fatma...
Married. Gertrude Augusta ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 32, high-stepping onetime tennis star (women's indoor singles champion, 1949) who raised eyebrows and lowered camera angles by playing at Wimbledon in lace panties; and Thomas Joseph Corbally, 35, industrial-design firm vice president; in New York City...
Conrad Aiken contributes an Opening Response: Lord, Lord, give us Thy day, that once more we may be the endless miracle that embodies Thee. And a Wal lace Stevens' poem becomes an Evening Response: We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark...
...classic example of the Puritan limner's art. Typically, seven-year-old Margaret meets the eye not like a real girl in a real world but like a dream of one. Her body looks no thicker than a dress on a clothes hanger. The ringleted hair, silver necklace, lace, drawstrings and bows are presented distinctly. But it would be hard to guess how Margaret looked from the side. Her square-toed shoes scarcely touch the floor, and though the floor is seen from above, Margaret stands at eye level. Nevertheless, the portrait is superb as well as typical limning...