Word: needlemen
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...lost when they switched to casting cinder block, later found these could be bought for one-third the cost on the open market. Four years after the project was begun (1933) the first families finally moved in and the garment factory began to give work to about 60 needlemen...
Joyful amid charge and countercharge, War Lord Feng boomed that he was really going to fight Japan. His troops did no fighting last week but they all offered their right sleeves to Chinese needlemen who nimbly stitched on armbands reading: "We represent the real fighting forces of the Chinese people. We are battling for China's independence against Japanese invaders...
Newsgatherers noting the growing popularity of knitting as a pastime for men in British society admired the handiwork of other noble needlemen-a handsome jumper by the Right Honorable the Earl of Harewood (formerly Viscount Lascelles, spouse of Princess Mary); scarves and mufflers by Baron Gainford, vice-chairman of the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd., and Baron Holmpatrick, famed Cavalryman...
...date King Amanullah of Afghanistan, they were assisted into pants, buttoned into shirts, tied with cravats and hustled into coats. All these garments, cut after modes observed by King Amanullah on his recent tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23 to June 4), had been made by Afghan needlemen from native approximations to suitings and shirtings. Remained only the titanic project of clipping, shaving...
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