Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, found Vivaldi's music often "lively as gunfire," but hardly theatrical. Holofernes got his head lopped off in a few bars of refined fiddling-where Verdi would have unleashed all the brass and tympani in the pit. And Judith was always genteel, a decapitator in old lace. Sung in Latin, the vocal lines were always elegant, sometimes floridly difficult...
...Washington get in the way of statistical detail, but occasionally a light note slips in, e.g., the time that hornyhanded Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, in the midst of a powerful political delivery at dinner, placed his ice cream on one of Mrs. Hoover's prized Belgian lace doilies and gulped down doily and all. But in the four presidential years, which plunged, only a few months after Inauguration Day, into the opaque depths of the Great Depression, there was a minimum of things to laugh about. Still, nothing in those days of disaster seems to have changed...
...Suit (Rank; Universal-International) spins a colorful yarn out of whole cloth about a research chemist (Alec Guinness) who invents an artificial fabric that will never stain or wear out. The result is top-grade movie material with the quality of good British woolen, the frothiness of fine French lace...
Last year, they reported that the trend was towards lugubrious greetings like, "I could boil you in brine, Won't you be my Valentine?" So this year, they ordered several gross of similar soupy sentiments. But they claim the demand is now for the lace-and-honey type of card...
...squares with a white pique collar, so long that it hides the bathing suit and so puffy that it resembles a maternity blouse. Other eye-catchers: the butterfly-winged cape which Princess Gabriella di Giardinelli ("Gabriellasport") designed for her yellow silk evening gown; a short evening dress of black lace on white organdie by the Fontana sisters; a white wool pullover, with close-fitting slacks, by Milan's Mirsa. Not only U.S. buyers, but Europeans, flocked to the salons. Plainly, the Italians were giving the French plenty of cause for worry...