Word: lacing
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...Father Beaumont's recipe: Pour two bottles of Spanish red wine into jug, add two oranges two lemons and cucumber sliced, splash in one bottle of soda, lace with one-eighth bottle of brandy, drop in teaspoonful of Cointreau and two dashes bitters (or "anything like that") mix well and serve ice cold...
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...