Word: lacings
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...very pretty and accurate the scene, which did please me much. And it did go very swift and I did soon lose myself in seventeenth century most completely. Indeed, I did imagine many musketeers in the audience and the lady aside me was now dressed in many silks and lace and airs; but the lord still did seem a mean looker. And I was glad at my heart to see Sir Pepys (bless our souls!) who doth see the show for the first time and did laugh much at the lines...
...greatest living singers." Even with such praise she has remained levelheaded, happiest when with her own people. She could have been roundly feted if she had chosen to remain in Manhattan last week. Instead she preferred to hide away in her mother's Philadelphia home, with its starched lace curtains, its overstuffed furniture, its radio, its fireplace aglow with artificial flames...
...Katharine Hepburn is better looking as a boy than as a woman. Just why, in the plot, she has to become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...
December 16. Up betimes, and put on my red stuff-suit, with a shoulder belt, according to the new style, and the bands of my vest and tunique laced with fine lace, of the color of my suit; and so, very handsome, by coach to nibble a bit at Will's. Here I did meet Sir Samuel Pepys, who greeted me merrily and did tell me some gossip from court, and all the while started at my new suit and I think with envy. Whereupon I did tell him my tailor and it did please him much. Whereupon I sought...
...caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary sizes and complete but compact sets of sacred vessels. (Continued...