Word: needleworked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slums of Five Points thousands of "wretched outcasts" slept in ragged piles amid "a rubbish of bones and dirt," and "swarms of . . . barefooted, unbreeched little tatterdemalions" ran the muddy lanes like animals. As late as 1890, thousands of children of Jewish and Bohemian immigrants were "working at cigarmaking or needlework as soon as their little fingers could master a detail"-or were living by "thievery or . . . prostitution...
...Needlework or Ball Games. "Lying in a hospital bed," said an A.P. dispatch from Copenhagen, "her long yellow hair curling on a pillow, [she] widened her grey-blue eyes and lifted her hands in a surprised, frightened gesture." One newsman got into her hospital room using a bouquet of flowers as a pass key. Others bombarded her with such questions as "Do you sleep in a nightgown or pajamas?" "Will you ever be a mother?" "Do you still have to shave?" "Are your interests male or female? I mean are you interested in, say, needlework, rather than" a ball game...
...most provocative news of medical needlework came from the congress' French president, Dr. Roger de la Füye: "I affirm that acupuncture, professionally administered the evening or morning before a sporting match, will increase the performance of a champion. These same punctures, administered by a veterinarian acupuncturist to a horse 20 minutes before the race, are capable of 'doping' sprinters, trotters or jumpers in a clean and legal manner, and giving them a clear advantage...
...temporarily reduce the fine arts to a dust heap." Established Revolutionaries. Actually, Sir Kenneth and his council panel have kept a pretty fair balance between new & old. Their program has included makes tions of Picasso ceramics and "Young Contemporaries," but also shows of Rem brandt, Rowlandson and even needlework...
...arrived clutching the address of relatives, moved in with them until they found jobs and an apartment, then sent for husband and children. Often, parents, brothers & sisters followed. In New York City, it was easy for the Puerto Rican woman to find a job. Garment factories valued their skilled needlework; housewives sought them as domestics...