Word: lacing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouce have come up with a new and an unusual variety of theatrical entertainment in "The Hasty Heart." The play lacks the appealing sentimentality of "Life With Father"; it does not have the grotesque attraction of "Arsenic and Old Lace"; but "The Hasty Heart" strikes at deeper human election than have any of the famous partners' former productions...
...hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long-suffering women, plump from their starchy wartime diet, hailed the new order in corsets: it would uplift both midriff and morale...
Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...
Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...
Arsenic and Old Lace (Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...