Word: tailor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense of realism that generally gets the better of his Prussian stubbornness. He gives his young pastors one cardinal maxim: "You must love men as they are, and not wait until they change into what you want them to be." But, as a man who has used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled out a dwarf cigar at a church meeting, Dibelius' goatee shook. "Nein, Bruder, nein," he said, proffering a cigar...
...estranged sister), and Paul Merker, who is a Jew, charged with "harboring the Zionist viewpoint" and acting like "another Slansky." The accusations suggested that Jewish Communists with Western, and particularly U.S., "connections" would be used as scapegoats for East Germany's economic woes. The role seemed tailor-made for Gerhart Eisler...
Written in 1912, Androcles and the Lion tells of a mild little Greek tailor (Alan Young) who befriends a wounded lion. Later the lion saves the tailor from Christian martyrdom in the Colosseum...
...behind bars, stepped from the Virginia State Penitentiary a free man. Wrote Editor Kilpatrick: "It is, for this newspaper, the end of a long trail-a trail at once heart-warming and heart-breaking." Silas Rogers, standing in a blue suit which he had made himself in the prison tailor shop for the occasion, looked up at a dull winter sky and said: "I've never seen it so beautiful...
...took to a life of cadge-as-cadge-can until he got a second chance at Orders in the Scots College in Rome. There he sported a rich repertory of ecclesiastical jokes, ran up bills with a tailor, was expelled again as "lacking vocation." Convinced he had been dealt foul, Rolfe cursed the Church and went on cursing it energetically for the rest of his life-while remaining a Catholic. He borrowed a title, Baron Corvo, took it to Scotland and began to dine out in great pretension. The canny Scots, however, would not con. Soon he was back...