Word: seamstressing
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...grew up in a squalor he swore to escape. He rose to the top of his class in school, got a job making Borsalino hats (which are to Stetsons what Isotta Fraschinis are to Oldsmobiles); during the depression he lived squalidly in a tiny apartment with his wife, a seamstress. He was arrested for Communist agitation and when he got out of jail after five years, things were even worse ("We lived on boiled milk and boiled potatoes...
Lane Bryant started out as Lena Himmelstein. She came to the U.S. from Lithuania in 1895, at 16. After four years of struggling along as a seamstress, she married a Russian jewelry salesman named David Bryant. Within a year, the couple had a son, but a few months later Bryant died. The young widow pawned her diamond earrings, bought a sewing machine, started making lingerie at home. By 1907 she was prospering sufficiently to borrow $300 to start a separate shop, and open a bank account. At the bank, she accidentally signed her name "Lane" instead of "Lena...
...Stern Brigitte cannot abide love in others. When a poor schoolmaster and a plain little seamstress wish to marry, she does her best to prevent it-then watches their poverty and sorrow with pretended concern but real satisfaction...
...church choir on Sundays. Weekdays she hummed arias as she sewed for Westchester County suburbanites in the Mattie Bowe Dressmaking Establishment. While pinning a dress on a customer one day, she sang the Depnis le Jour aria from Gustave Charpentier's Louise, an opera whose heroine is a seamstress. The customer, Louise Crane, paper mill heiress, daughter of Massachusetts' late wealthy Governor Winthrop Murray Crane, offered to finance her voice lessons...
...thorough knowledge of the workings of the U.S. Government. He is one of the few men in history who has held high office in all its three branches. Born to poverty, on the wrong end of Charleston's King Street, he ran errands for his widowed mother (a seamstress), studied shorthand, learned to know politicians as a court reporter...