Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler's company commander in World War I, German consul general in San Francisco for two stormy years and spy extraordinary for the Third Reich, was back in the U.S. for a brief stay last week. Newsmen who remembered Wiedemann as a tall, black-haired fashion plate scarcely recognized the baggy-suited, greying, unshaven man who deplaned from an Army transport at California's Hamilton Field...
...gleefully printed the news. But when sinners began calling at Long's house he had to tell them they were too late. "I'm afraid I can't help you," he said, "the Day of Atonement has passed." He suggested repentance on a cross, after the fashion of St. Dysmas, the good thief. "It might work," he added doubtfully, "but I can't guarantee...
...more than 1,000,000 German D.P.s (displaced persons), ousted from Czechoslovakia, were drifting westward and northward. They had fled Silesia before the Red Army. Now their homes were Polish-owned, Russian-ruled. Some hitched rides-on carts, trucks, freight cars, anything that moved on wheels. Others moved gypsy-fashion in creaking covered wagons. Like 60,000 Sudetenlanders expelled with them (and like the Germans from Austria), they were the unwanted children of enforced marriages of nations, now dissolved...
Because the Tilletts were fine craftsmen their textile designs became fashion's rage in Mexico. In no time at all they were in the chips. Both got married; Leslie to a girl from New York, Jim to lush, dark Nieves, model for some of Diego Rivera's best nudes...
...this gets started in a very leisurely fashion, but it is done with firm taste and imaginativeness. People who like their horror dished up with a lavish hand are liable to become restless. But they will do well to keep their seats: the time soon comes when a seat is handy for hanging onto...