Word: presser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While the Army "mopped up" the Capital of all B. E. F". stragglers, Virginia blocked the veterans on the South. Maryland supplied trucks to carry thousands of them to the Pennsylvania line. The Red Cross handled the women & children. Red-headed Mayor Eddie McCloskey of Johnstown. Pa., onetime pants-presser and prizefighter, invited B. E. F. leaders to his city to reorganize their force. Johnstown citizens protested loudly when veterans began to straggle in and bivouac in a fly-ridden amusement park outside town, where another B. E. F. baby was born...
...talkies have discovered to indicate motion from one place to another. Its somewhat sentimental story is by no means a novelty but the dialog is terse and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. has an English accent which, if he uses it at home, must make his father feel like a pants-presser...
...Tailor Made Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). William Haines is one of those actors who have committed themselves to a specialty and are obliged to stick to it. The story, selected because it was in the Haines formula, is the old one about the pants presser who starts on his way to success by stealing a customer's dress suit and wearing it to a party. He is in love with his boss's daughter, Dorothy Jordan. When he has abruptly achieved eminence as manager of a department store, a job given him by a millionaire whom his social...