Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British are foolish-fond of their railroads, as they are of any public inconvenience that has been around for more than 100 years. Sprouting from the main lines, branch tracks lace the map like a web spun by a Stakhanovite spider. One-and two-car trains jog across the countryside as leisurely and erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering...
Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes in Arsenic and Old Lace, with Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Billie Burke, Orson Bean, Edward Everett Horton...
...means in the used-car business. Some of these novels are definitely vintage models which first startled the highbrow highways more than a quarter century ago. Nor do they necessarily provide a joy ride. In Joyce's The Dead, the reader will find a depressing Christmas party in lace-curtain Dublin; in Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman, the hanging of a sailor aboard a British man-of-war of the Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide of a farmer in horse-and-buggy Texas; in Gogol...
When he is compared to McCormack the singing priest says modestly: "I'm no fit to lace John's boots." When he held a scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Music, young MacEwan auditioned for the great McCormack. Father MacEwan doesn't remember what he sang, but he says with quiet pride: "He thought I was 'guid.' I want to steer clear of any comparison with him. But he thought I was 'guid.' " So did London society, but in the midst of acclaim, Singer MacEwan felt call to the priesthood...
...many baffling mysteries were solved, and many new weapons appeared in the lockers of the chemists. Now they could predict how a substance would react even when they had no sample of it. They could handle with new assurance the complex organic molecules, whose atoms are arranged like submicroscopic lace in chains, rings and branches. Out of the new techniques grew enormous industries -drugs, plastics and synthetic fibers...