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...meantime, the bailiff had called a young Black man's case. The arresting officer, a plain-clothesman, had charged him with attempted larceny. The officer testified first, saying the man had deliberately bumped his left shoulder and attempted to pick his left pocket. The officer said the man and his friends had separated him and his partner before the incident occurred. He said he grabbed the man, identified himself, and accused the man of trying to fight, "and I told him don't do that or I'll charge you with attempted assault of an officer...
Probably even more important than Travelmanship is Clothesmanship. Consider the case of Maxwell J. Suave, the greatest Clothesman of our time. Suave usually wore pretty dingy-looking clothes, most of which he bought off a pipe rack in a cutrate Brooklyn clothing store, but he gave the impression that the finest tailors in the world tended to his wardrobe. He would mention casually that he was writing off for some more socks to his favorite haberdashery in Cannes. "They know my feet intimately," he would say, "and they do make different socks for each foot." He sent himself huge bills...
Probably even more important than Travelmanship is Clothesmanship. Consider the case of Maxwell J. Suave, the greatest Clothesman of our time. Suave usually wore pretty dingy-looking clothes, most of which he bought off a pipe rack in a cutrate Brooklyn clothing store, but he gave the impression that the finest tailors in the world tended to his wardrobe. He would mention casually that he was writing off for some more socks to his favorite haberdashery in Cannes. "They know my feet intimately," he would say, "and they do make different socks for each foot." He sent himself huge bills...
When the MIT trigger-man reached for the detonator, he was seized by a plain-clothesman from the Brighton police force, which had been called in by the HAA Thursday...
Disgruntled former Nazis who have quit or been purged out of the Party, and have no further use for brown shirts, have sold so many to a Swabian old-clothesman named Pius Degenhart that last week he staged an auction at Memmingen, was promptly jailed for "dishonoring the National Socialist Party uniform...