Word: openwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Regretted that the first woman M. P. remains so incurably trivial a headline-snatcher when Lady Astor, showing the neat ankle of a Langhorne of Virginia, introduced the topic of her openwork silk stockings. After publicly regretting that she has to import them from the U. S. and pay a stiff British duty, the Noble Lady was informed by Dr. Edward L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, that she can "Buy British" openwork silk stockings...
...Confident that he was pleasing Lady Astor, Dr. Burgin then drew further attention to her neat ankle by remarking, "I shall be glad to present the Noble Lady with a British-made pair of the best openwork silk stockings, if she will promise to wear them in this House...
...Chalice and is the basis of the theory that the cup used by Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper was preserved and, perhaps several years after the Supper, fittingly decorated. The outer shell is a sheathing of elaborately sculptured silver, its gilded decorations carved in an openwork known in ancient times as opus interrasile, one of the most beautiful and expensive kinds of workmanship then practiced in the Near East. The decorations are a continuous network of leaves, stems, branches, birds and human figures, from which the background has been cut away, so that the inner bowl...