Word: seamstressing
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...spent years wandering across Europe. Few months ago, faded and old (64) but still defiant, she went to Toronto on a British passport, applied for permission to re-enter the U. S. for 90 days. She wanted to visit friends in Rochester where 45 years ago she was a seamstress in a clothing factory. While the State Department was considering her case, she said last week: "It is not in the brain work of capitalists to make much improvement for the masses, but the United States has done a great many things to surprise the world. . . . Frank- lin Roosevelt...
...Carlson was born to a healthy Minnesota seamstress and a factory stoker. As often occurs, something had happened to his brain. Professor Bronson Crothers, Harvard neurologist & pediatrician, tells his students: "It is probable that injury of the central nervous system during birth, or immediately thereafter, accounts for more than half of the deaths of viable babies. Furthermore, it is almost certain that such injuries are responsible for the disability of more children suffering from organic diseases of the nervous system than any other single etiologic factor except infantile paralysis...
...seamstress mother recognized that her ungainly child was bright. She taught him first herself, took him to school at 6. He hated school because other children made fun of him, his body being in a constant state of writhing motion. His mother's remarkable persistence and encouragement, however, impelled him to continue his education against all odds, so that twitching, twisting and stammering he made his way through school...
...reports that during 1929 it was possible to rescue and send home to France one young woman, a seamstress, who considered herself a White Slave, considered that she had been lured out to the Argentine and put to the most dreadful of trades against her will...
...understood. Instead, the Bureau will try earnestly and scientifically to render reasonably presentable poor folk who are now too repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert told of a half-starved seamstress who had had no clients since her face became covered with large nauseating warts. She is on the dole now-a charge upon the Government- but when the Bureau has dealt with the warts she should soon win back her profitable trade. Recalling that Berlin has a standing idle army...