Word: stitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Couplings. There were even indications and promises of a good future. In such a commonplace as a yam, science was finding new hope for the ill (see MEDICINE). There were also new comforts to living. There was a 24-lb. sewing machine on the market which not only could stitch but could embroider, make buttonholes and darn socks. There was an announcement that the New York Central would soon have ready for wilting and near-sighted New York commuters 100 air-conditioned cars with fluorescent lighting and improved couplings to soften the shock of frequent stopping & starting. The rubber companies...
...crisp moviemaking that follows is the work of Producer Anthony (Quartet) Darnborough and Director Terence Fisher. Taking a loosely knit story, they have tightened it stitch by stitch with skillful timing, intelligent camera work and imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...
...with a sewing machine. But like other housewives, she found it slow going when she had to rip what she had sewn. With Merritt L. Walls, a gadget-minded ex-G.I, Mrs. Lawrence worked out the first needle that will quickly rip a seam by "unlocking" the bobbin stitch. When the Lawrence-Walls "ripper" was first demonstrated a month ago, Birmingham housewives bought 5,000 (at $1 each) in four hours. Last week the inventors granted exclusive manufacturing rights to the Oilman Corp. of Janesville, Wis., a subsidiary of Parker...
...when Harry Truman appeared. Later, they took their positions in two long lines on either side of his car-sedate-looking fellows, carrying canes-and walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine, although afterwards they began to stiffen up a bit, sitting around in the chill breeze...
Among the sayings Moore decided on were "Fools Rush In . . ." (in the window a little lady braves a lion's den to win a fox furpiece), and "A Stitch in Time . . ." (a doll-size girl sews a rhinestone on to a life-size silk stocking). Another proverb, "People Who Live in Glass Houses" called for two figures under a glass bell in the center of a residential square (see cut). The giant hands accusing them from neighboring doors and windows were meant to advertise Bonwit's gloves...