Word: fitters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flee" one that will get its bearer immediate service. To get maximum effect from a sale, Detroit's Martin Alpert & Son jewelry store instituted midnight to 3 a.m. hours to accommodate night-shift workers. For favored customers, I. Magnin of San Francisco will dispatch a salesperson and a fitter anywhere in the U.S. to show and fit clothes. The store picks up all expenses but sometimes sells $10,000 worth of clothes on a trip...
Nine Black Bats. Hank Bauer may have quit the A's-but not Kansas City. It has been his off-season home ever since he arrived in 1947, a young pipe fitter who figured himself "good enough to play Triple A ball, nothing more." The Bauers' neat grey-brick house in suburban Prairie Village is stocked with the usual mementos of Hank's playing career: bronze-dipped spikes and gloves, plaques, pictures, and a rack of nine shiny black World Series bats, one for each of Hank's years as a member of the champion Yankees...
Boston's scrum will outweight Harvard's, but the Crimson pack claim they are "fitter than ever" and bank on winning the ball despite their lightness. Doug Hall, who was out last week due to a strained back, will return to the second row, Ed Quattelbaum will be in lock position in his initial game with the first team...
...sightseeing; Buckingham Palace, he allowed, was "a swell pad. I think I'd like to have a place like that." At Gieves of Bond Street, outfitters to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Cassius bought a red brocade cocktail coat and got fitted to a bowler; the fitter respectfully informed him that his head was slightly lopsided. Crowds of autograph hunters packed around. "Who are you?" asked one puzzled Londoner. "Sonny Listen!" Cassius yelled, trying to look mean...
Like many of his literary predecessors, he ran away from school. The disguise he chose for his flight to Paris could hardly have been more bizarre. Modeled on that of a contemporary gas fitter, the costume consisted of a tall hat, long black overcoat, false mustache, a bag of bogus tools and a copy of The Gas World. But Paris looked at him with an indifference to match his own, and (less conspicuously dressed) he took off for points east with a donkey and a rather nutty companion who was a much more usual type of rebel, a romantic poseur...