Word: seamstressing
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...every home the King left a small sum of money. One old seamstress refused to accept her envelope, saying, "There are people worse off than I, monsieur." When the abbe told her the identity of her benefactor, she accepted. One man refused, saying, "I work for my living." It was night when Abbé Froidure drove the King back to Laeken Palace. Said Baudouin: "It's scandalous that people are living in such conditions." To Health Minister de Taeye he said: "Something must be done about it." Asked next day exactly what he was going to do about...
...Place to Live In. During the war, SSman Sirsch was captured by the Russians, and his wife cared for little Ivan. At war's end, expelled from her home in the Sudetenland, Frau Sirsch took the boy to West Germany, where she made a precarious living as a seamstress. In 1949 Sirsch was released from his Russian P.W. camp, took up his old trade of house painting and built a new home. Herr and Frau Sirsch and little Ivan seemed happy...
...more awards than any other dramatic program, largely because of its professional competence and grown-up storytelling. Last week, Studio One tackled Stefan Zweig's Letter from An Unknown Woman, a melodrama about a heartless Viennese composer (Melvyn Douglas) and a seamstress (Viveca Lindfors). Televiewers who expected to see the usual bang-up production, saw instead a shambles...
...Washington, M. B. Schnapper, editor of Public Affairs Press, wrote to Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson criticizing plans for a new stamp honoring that patriotic seamstress, Betsy Ross. There is no proof, wrote the dissenter, that it was Betsy who had made the first American flag. "It is a sad day indeed when governmental agencies start promoting romantic rumors as though they are historical facts." Nonsense, retorted Donaldson's philatelic experts. A. Atwater Kent had spent good money to refurbish the Ross house in Philadelphia as a historical shrine; the Daughters of the American Revolution had approved the stamp...
...pleasant working-class neighborhood, where his parents, Antonio and Maria Cocozza, had a six-room house and brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...