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Word: lacings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curvaceous Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 25, the most eye-filling thing in women's tennis since Britain's Kay Stammers Menzies retired. Since the memorable lace-pantie experiment at Wimbledon (TIME, July 4), Gussie has switched back to shorts, promises to bear down on her tennis, which she thinks has suffered from too much publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heiresses Apparent | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...same time, Mrs. Josephine Hull, Radcliffe '99, star of "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "Harvey," was formally initiated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe PBK Picks 13 New Members | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

After three months of woman-to-woman friendship, Betty recalled in London's Sunday Pictorial, "Donna asked me if I would like to share the digs. I agreed. I watched her unpack. Donna had exquisite transparent cami-knickers, little lace panties, corsets, lots of nylons. We talked for a time. Then Donna gave me my first shock. She asked: 'Would you mind if I smoked a pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Happy Birthday | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...both morals and morale. Heads of families were finding it almost impossible to earn a living wage and still be honest. The young boy in this film makes more money on the black market than him father does in a factory. The sister takes to jitterbugging and wearing black-lace drawers. So when the Italian soldier comes home, the plight in which he finds him own family can be taken as somewhat typifying that of Italy at the time. "Revenge" was intended to carry a message of hope to the people of Italy. To this observer, distant in both time...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Revenge | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...times during the evening when I thought "Mrs Gibbons' Boys" might save itself by turning into a complete farce. Unfortunately, it never did. The character of the mother, as played by Lois Bolton, is frequently pathetic: she is not insane, (as say, the two sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace,") but is obviously genuinely in love with her sons. She is thrilled to have them back home even if it means a jail-break, and she is also quite serious about her Gas Company beau...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

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