Word: stitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still the zealous, domineering director of Philadelphia's Grand Opera Company (the world's only woman opera-director since Anita Colombo was eased out of her position at La Scala) but in five years her position has radically changed. No longer does she haggle over prices or stitch costumes. She wears orchids, travels abroad to engage talent. Prosperity came in 1929 when Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis, decided to support the company, to use it partly as an outlet for opera talent in the Curtis Institute of Music. Proof...
...Honesdale. Pa. After many a rousing hymn (favorite: "Touch Not the Cup") and a Big Free Magic Lantern Show presented by Grand Diapason Shafer, the meeting adjourned. History- "Chet" Shafer, an amateur student of Americana, collector (at his home in Three Rivers, Mich.) of old shaving mugs, cross-stitch mottoes, cuspidors and headless wooden Indians, wrote for the Saturday Evening Post in 1926 an article called "The Pipe Organ Pumper"- wherein he recalled...
Both boats as usual carried every stitch of canvas they had. Often The baud dipped her rail into the wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big mainsail was so ungainly that Captain Walters had to swing it by the topping lift; her topsails were shapeless sacks. When Thebaud had won the race, twice round the course with an extra lap up Gloucester harbor, by 15 minutes, Bluenose's sails were rushed to a loft...