Word: lacings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lash was an exuberant, big-eared young art student in the Paris of Trilby and Bouguereau when Grover Cleveland was President of the U. S. In those fine days his father in San Francisco, a lace importer from Prague, had plenty of money. By 1892 Son Lee was a capable painter. Last week at Manhattan's Keppel Gallery Lee Lash at 70 had his first one-man show...
...grand procession climax, came an open landau with King George as a Field Marshal looking as the late great French President Raymond Poincare once described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side was Queen Mary in a gown of hydrangea pink silk net, embroidered with lace, and worn over a slip of dazzling silver cloth, the whole enhanced by a necklace, bracelets and earrings of diamonds and pearls. Roared a huckster from Victoria Monument, "God bless you, Sir! God save...
...grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde loveliness, she quickly cast off her impecunious young husband. Tabor married her, 30 years his junior, as soon...
...Bubbles" James had little to do. Stiffly at attention Rear Admiral Bailey laid his sword on the President's desk and crisply conducted his own defense. Amusing highlight in the court martial was a small midshipman, pink with embarrassment at testifying before so much gold lace. According to this humble snotty's stopwatch the Renown had been given plenty of time to change her course safely...
...been "brown-haired," "red-haired," "light-haired," "dark." She has worn a "blanket," "black lace step-ins," "dancing tights," "panties," "white nightgown" or "nothing." New York wives have not shrunk-most of them have laughed out loud...