Word: needleworker
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From all the syringe-wielders' needlework exhibited at the conference, there was no outline of such a cure-only research strands from which researchers may painstakingly build a pattern...
...sisters' needlework that first attracted John Trumbull to art. His father found the attraction inappropriate on two counts: first, young John had lost the use of one eye in a childhood accident, and second, he was a gentleman. Picturemaking, for the handsome son of the governor of Connecticut, was unthinkable. Accordingly, odd John was packed off to Harvard for polishing. There, however, he called on the greatest of American portraitists, John Singleton Copley, and painted and copied all the pictures he could. He was one of the first male American aristocrats to take brush in hand (Copley came from...
...from street to street shall weave old England's winding sheet," Pearl takes a dry delight in proposing that the "unfortunates," the "soiled doves," not only had a better time of it than their virtuous sisters sweating in domestic slavery or the nightmare of piecework needlework, but were better people in some ways than the severely swathed ladies and broadcloth gentlemen who regarded them as a "social evil...
Henrietta Kanengeiser never learned to cut a dress; her needlework was atrocious, and if she ventured to baste a hem it was likely to sag. Yet she wore clothes with a verve that trailed rapt feminine stares behind her like smoke from a gold-tipped cigarette. And she had an intuitive sense for that ill-defined and mysterious quality, taste. To two generations of American women Henrietta-or, as she was better known, Hattie Carnegie-was the quintessence of feminine fashion. Last week, at 69, Hattie Carnegie died of cancer, and left few peers in the bewildering business of adorning...
Across the country, the needlework that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had sought to hasten for 8,500,000 first-and second-graders was being stilled. More and more parents were withdrawing permission. Virtually all the vaccine that had been approved and re-approved was used up. Dr. Scheele was confident that some vaccine, already finished, could be released by the middle of this week, and that the flow would increase rapidly. But all sights had been lowered: the best he could hope for was completion of the foundation's priority program by Aug. 15. All manufacturers...