Word: seamstresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C. sleuthing Publisher Cooke found his first hot trail. At neat Negro Howard University he met a bent, white-haired mathematics professor, Dr. Kelly Miller, who told him that Bland had been survived by two sisters. One of them, a seamstress, thought she remembered where Bland had been buried and the number on his gravestone. Two months ago, after poking about among the headstones in Merion's old cemetery, Publisher Cooke found Bland's grave: a small mound covered with weeds and poison...
...safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest and sure ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes. Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin wall of an artery which is about to burst, stitch the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal size bore. Last week's was the most recent of many honors for Dr. Matas...
...might have seemed, for it enabled him to collect $42,875 in insurance to finance an invention. The invention failed and not long afterward he fell ill and died. In fairly rapid succession, so did his 3-year-old daughter, Ingeborg; an aunt, Suzanne Loewenstein; and the family seamstress, Anna Kittenberger. In each case Mrs. Martha Marek was in close attendance. Last week in Vienna a horrified Nazi judge put an end to Frau Marek's ghastly livelihood. For it was she who had sliced off her husband's leg, she who had killed daughter, aunt and seamstress...
...Duchess of Windsor, years ago in Washington when she was the wife of an impecunious U. S. Navy officer, used to send over her seamstress to copy Mrs. Gordon's gowns, by permission, when the latter would return from Paris with another trunkful. Of aristocratic Dutch descent, the U. S. Minister's wife, nee Vandergrift, has many friends, some relatives in The Netherlands...
...fresco for the new Department of Justice Building called: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. Some 600 feet square, Artist Biddle's didactic mural is filled with the portraits of real people. One of them, a sweatshop seamstress in a smock (see cut) has the face of Madam Secretary Perkins...