Word: lacing
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...work is done, Congress can adjourn in five minutes. Proroguing Parliament is a lengthy and a solemn business. Last week putting an end to the 13-month session of Parliament (longest since the War) Lieut. General Sir William Pulteney, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, in black velvet, with lace on his cuffs and a sword at his side, walked from the House of Lords down the corridor to the House of Commons where the door was ceremoniously slammed in his face. Knocking three times with his Rod, he entered the House, bowed to the Speaker, to the Government party...
Brocade. Queen Mary in a gown of turquoise blue brocade and wearing one of the new long lace afternoon coats (Her Majesty's being of green and red gold lace) appeared with George V on the lawn of Buckingham Palace last week for the Royal Garden Party...
Next the Countess Szembeck, wife of the Polish Minister at Bucharest, was forced to ruin her lace evening gown by reclining in some particularly squelchy mud. "Outrageous!" she stormed, sobbed...
...Bride Edda arrived in the first motor car. Father as well as daughter seemed flushed with excitement. Amid cheers they entered the church, he in faultless morning clothes, she in a sleek white satin dress trailing to her ankles, shoulder length white kid gloves, and a superb lace bridal veil the gift of the Italian Senate, this surmounted by a narrow wreath of orange blossoms. Bride Edda's bouquet was an armful of roses white as snowballs...
...foreigners the graceful Spanish mantilla, a veil of cobwebby black or white lace worn on the heads of Spanish ladies,-is as typical of the country as bull fighting or olla podrida (meat and vegetable stew). In modern Spain the only times that mantillas are actually worn are at gala occasions, such as bull fights and during Holy Week. Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie and the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina officially inaugurated Mantilla Week by marching into Madrid's cathedral last week, their heads shrouded in the most cobwebby of cream lace mantillas...