Word: needlework
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...hernia at this site will become strangulated, but the President did suffer discomfort from clothing rubbing against the tender, stretched skin that might have become ulcerated. Though the operation to push the protruding gut back and close the rupture securely is not dangerous, it demands exquisitely delicate dissection and needlework because the muscle fibers are layered and crisscrossed like the Warp and woof of a carpet...
...Most of the fairs made do with just acrobats and dog acts and perhaps a kick line of local chorus girls. Sometimes the whole show was included in the dollar-odd price of admission, right along with the exhibition barns and the competition sheds full of fancy needlework and loganberry jam. At other fairs, an additional couple of dollars per head were charged for the grandstand entertainment, but it was usually a loss leader...
...quilting. The art is nearly as old as the needle. Medieval knights wore quilted clothing under their chain mail, but not until the early 18th century did the English develop quilting to a level of elegant decoration. Yet it was their colonists in America who turned this knack of needlework into a way of life...
Fainting & Needlework. Ida McKinley, on the other hand, was given to fainting spells, and she whiled away nearly all of her husband's term doing needlework. William Howard Taft's wife Helen attended every Cabinet meeting with him, and when the press accused her of influencing policy, she insisted that she went along only to keep him awake. Woodrow Wilson's second wife Edith was called "the Acting President" because only she and a doctor could visit-and presumably influence -her husband during the months that he lay ill after a stroke...
...earthbound Nijinsky who can entrechat her way across a stage in half-inch leaps. Footwork is needlework to Bea-she crochets with her toes. If playgoers dare to laugh at her outlandishly comic bits of business, she freezes upon them the look of an embalmed codfish until they burst out laughing all over again. Her costumes are designed by the Mad Hatter...