Word: sew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent us some light stuff suitable for topcoats. But the factory was already making winter overcoats with fur collars. Nichevo! We have to attach black fur collars to light topcoats. And the same thing happens with the collars as with the cloth. We use whatever they send us. We sew cheap fur onto an expensive overcoat." Result: there are 342 state "ateliers" in Moscow alone-not to mention myriads of moonlighting private "tailors" employing Russia's ancient talent with the needle-doing a roaring trade in tailoring and alterations...
...Snyder), presided over the League of Women Voters (Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Feinsod), worked at the polls or for the C.C.A. (Mrs. Bundy), practiced Medicine and law, painted and sung. They have written novels and children's stories, been professional photographers and served as Radcliffe trustees. Some of them sew, Mrs. Friederich having distinguished herself among the Faculty wives by making a man's jacket. Delmar Leighton's wife, knowing Cambridge well, works for a real estate agency in the Square. Mrs. Forbes, one time Assistant Director of the Radcliffe Choral Society, still makes it to Choral rehearsals now under...
...held by metal pins and skin grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...
Halfback J.T. Baird scored early in the first half to touch off a 26 to 0 Eliot romp over the Leverett football team yesterday. Minutes after Baird's tally, end Jim Dallas recovered a Leverett fumble in the end zone to sew up the game for the Elephants...
...order back-to-school brochure are running 23% ahead of last year. Biggest demand is for old standbys such as polo and Chesterfield coats, but there is also a fad for kilt skirts and shaggy-dog coats. In Los Angeles the Smart Sixteen set is buying blankets for a sew-it-yourself skirt and blazer set. Most popular are clothes adorned with raccoon. Says Angela Kroll, buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue: "We can sell anything with raccoon." Best & Co. is doing a big business in detachable raccoon collars ($10.95 for a 14-in. Peter Pan collar...