Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tunesmith Rodgers listened from the sidelines, confided: "That's the one I like best." Like the other 13 selections composed for the show, the Rodgers tunes were light and a little thin, the Hammerstein lyrics were a little too sugary. There was still time to lace them with some tartness. "But after all," commented the other stepsister, Kaye Ballard, with a shrug of resignation, "it is Cinderella...
Died. Josephine (Sherwood) Hull, 71, dumpling-shaped character actress (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, The Solid Gold Cadillac) who modestly tapped fame at 55 ("I'm short and fat and funny, you know, and not easy to fit into a play"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...Eisenhower, cleaning up their social obligations for the season, played host at a reception for some 1,000 Government officials and Congressmen. Milling through the East Room and the State Dining Room, the guests munched cookies, sipped lemon-and-raspberry spikeless punch, took note of the resplendence of satin, lace and jewels, viz.: Ohio's Mrs. Frank Lausche, in eggshell taffeta; Kentucky's Mrs. Sherman Cooper in black silk; Tennessee's Mrs. Estes Kefauver in two shades of green chiffon. Blazing the way toward a new style was Mrs. Randolph Burgess, wife of the Under Secretary...
...holiday season the thoughts of an exiled son have turned back affectionately to the old state! Aromas more wonderful than the perfumes of Araby. Thrilling hints of the feast to come . . . Unbearable suspense . . . the glad trooping to the dining room to wait until grandma in black silk and white lace is seated on her throne at the foot of the table...
...evidence everywhere were the King's bodyguards, four swarthy, husky men in short, blue, lace-trimmed jackets, each carrying a sef (sword), khanjar (dagger) and pistol, all of which, Abdullah Balkhair explained, were merely ceremonial. They stood in sharp contrast to a few others in the party, beneath whose traditional robes reporters spotted signs of a more modern dress; one Saudi's robe flapped open to reveal a powder-blue ensemble-silk sports shirt buttoned at the neck, double-breasted blue zoot suit. The best and saddest scene-stealer of the group was sloe-eyed Prince Mashhur...