Word: cuffe
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Winston Churchill had some tailored shirts coming to him from Manhattan, but first the shirtmaker had some missing measurements coming to him. Unaware of the demands of true haute couture, the barrelly Briton had left only his neck-size (17½) and inside sleeve-length (20 from armpit to cuff). Cabled the shirtmaker: "Please send one old shirt for use as a model." He could scarcely do a proper job, he explained, without the outside sleeve-length, chest and waist measurements...
...suspended ceilings on: 1) $3,000,000,000 worth of industrial equipment out of some $15,000,000,000 to be produced this year; 2) several hundred consumer items of minor importance to the cost of living. Examples: fly swatters, locomotives, subway cars, flowerpots, turbines, soda fountains, dredges, cuff buttons, gaskets (a misprint in the Associated Press story touched off premature celebrations by U.S. casket makers...
...already too late. As Committee Chairman James E. Murray, a wealthy New Dealer from Montana, be an to cuff critics who had called his $5 billion plan "communistic" and "socialistic," Ohio's arch-conservative Robert A. Taft fidgeted noticeably in his chair. Then, unable to stand it any longer, he rose...
...statement, delivered off the cuff at a White House press conference, called for holding the islands under "individual trusteeship," and it gave some hope to friends of UNO who believe that the trusteeship ideal of the San Francisco conference can somehow be maintained. The same words caused some qualms among those Congressmen and Army & Navy chiefs who believe the U.S. should annex Pacific islands outright. The qualms were unjustified...
...remark into an inflammatory "attack," and the torch had been taken up by Jewish leaders who are usually responsible, by some who are usually not, and by comedians like Eddie Cantor (TIME, Jan. 14). Even the New York Times had tossed some faggots on the blaze. Its off-the-cuff editorial judgment of General Morgan's remarks: "It was an insult to six million tortured dead." Walter Winchell, who writes for the Hearst press, said it louder: "Morgan must not only be fired, he must be repudiated by His Majesty's, Government and stripped of his uniform...