Word: stitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your drop-stitch stockings...
...Farley produced a clipped news dispatch from Cannes, which reported that Mrs. Farley had been "the best dressed woman seen this season on the Riviera." "Well, what do you know about that?" exclaimed Mrs. Farley. "I can't imagine anyone saying that about me. Why, every stitch I've got on I bought here in New York...
...rather than satirical, these three poems sing of London love. A Stitch in Time, or Pride Prevents a Fall tells how Belinda nearly fell a prey to the importunity of a suitor, at the last minute saved her virtue when she remembered she had darned her green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist...
When sailors sew they need a stitch...
...wielding of the knife. The surgeon actually does much more in hemostasis, in clean removal of pathological conditions, in the restoration of normal relations, in the sewing of tissues, and the closure of wounds. This is itself an exquisite piece of craftsmanship, even to the tying of the last stitch." With the foregoing apostrophe to Surgery, which he has served for 40 years. Professor William David Haggard of Vanderbilt University last week in Chicago assumed the presidency of the American College of Surgeons. The Fellows of the College settled down to a hard week's round of lectures, conferences...