Word: lacings
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...seven years the Blennerhassetts enjoyed their island paradise. In one wing lived a staff of Negro slaves who waited on them hand & foot. In the other, the squire tinkered with his physical experiments. Beautiful Mrs. Blennerhassett, in a habit of red velvet and gold lace, galloped over the island and mainland on horseback or pointed her myopic husband's gun for him on hunting expeditions. And then one day in 1805 Mr. Blennerhassett met a man as eccentric and mercurial as himself, retiring U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr...
Cardinal of Charity. When Apostolic Delegate Cicognani and Bishop Schrembs were in the presence of Cardinal Hayes last week they took care to pull their mantellettas over their lace tunics. Reason: these symbols of their jurisdiction were nullified by the presence of the representative of the supreme jurisdiction of the Pope. Thus complete was the honor given last week to a churchman who says with Christian pride: "I was born very humble...
...18th Century, Pompadour, Lady Hamilton and Josephine wage their own private wars against the ravages of time while a woman hangs by her chin from a hook to reduce her "goozle" and two men at a windlass lace up the corset of the mural's only fat woman...
...content with all these sacrifices . . . France will . . . call upon our workers to again rally to her economic relief by giving up their own jobs and going on relief payrolls that the lace-makers of Calais and Caudry may be happily employed...
Only stony stares greeted U. S. lace importers, who argued in behalf of a tariff reduction. They pointed out that devaluation of the dollar had in effect nearly doubled the barrier to French imports. If the 90% duty on French lace were halved, domestic lace-makers would still enjoy more protection than they did three years ago. What the trade pact negotiators must ponder is whether concessions to France, where lace-making is a major industry employing 50,000 people, will gain markets for enough U. S. exports to compensate for unemployment created in the U. S. lace industry...