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Word: tailor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign, now weighed an imposing 320 lbs. ("In campaigns now," he explained, "you don't make speeches, you just eat canapés"), and nowhere in Washington could he find a dress suit to wear to the President's congressional reception. After trying all the local tailors, resourceful Representative Tumulty hurried back to Jersey City to see a tailor he knew. While he was waiting for alterations, a photographer showed up, and Tumulty posed (see cut) for the latest published photograph of a politician in underpants.* After all, said Tumulty, "if Marilyn Monroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tails of Jersey City | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...delivery by 1964, replace the Cleveland in 1964, the Wilson in 1965. Said President's President George Killion: "For years we've been forced to use war-built ships on routes for which they were not designed. But now American President is going to have a tailor-made ship for every route it serves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The New Fleet | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

Before she starred on the Philco Playhouse (CBS-TV), in a tailor-made drama called Run, Girl, Run, Lee Ann Meriwether, 19, better known as Miss America of 1955, got some encouragement from two previous titleholders, Yolande Betbeze ('51) and Jean Bartel ('43). Asked why so few of her predecessors had made the grade as successful actresses, Lee Ann had a blandly optimistic answer. "A lot of the girls haven't wanted it," purred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...warning, told her she was illegitimate. Lena sought out the man adjudged her father in a paternity suit years before, but he repudiated her and sent her away. Lena began carrying a knife, then the hatchet, for protection on her way home from work. She said that the old tailor, whom everyone called Pop, tried to fondle her. As she hit him, she kept calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Another Life | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...knows who painted them. The artists worked on the scale of the present-day "New York School" abstractionists, for the pictures measure 7 ft. by 10 ft. and up. All 13 pictures (painted on mattress ticking) were commissioned over a century ago by one George Mastin. a Genoa. N.Y. tailor, farmer, phrenologist violin player and horse trader, who exhibited them, together with his own wares and talents, in barns all over his county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BIG COMICS | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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