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...profile once caused a feminine flutter And then, even better than that, I was named by the "Tailor and Cutter" And they borrowed my name...
...guided missiles to U.M.T. Meanwhile, as if all these duties were not enough, he managed to find time for anyone who wanted to drop in for a chat. Actually, it was time he knew he could ill afford. Once, when he tried to squeeze in an appointment with his tailor one summer day, his secretary thumbed through her book and solemnly shook her head. "Sorry."' said she. "but you're booked solid until September...
...embodied no high-flown phrases. One of the four founding fathers, a tailor, admitted frankly that "the idea of my making a lot of new friends-who presumably would be working overtime to get people to come and have their clothes made at my place-struck me as a pretty good proposition." As the club has expanded to include some 390,000 members in 89 countries, the underlying principle is still the same one of friendship and understanding...
Theodorus Franciscus Lombert does not look much like a power in international affairs. Born at The Hague, this meek-looking, ne'er-do-well son of a tailor spent much of his young manhood pleading in court, but the courts were primarily interested in his connections with a series of shady charities. Nonetheless, all things being possible, his neighbors at The Hague pricked up their ears in interest when Theodorus told them-in strictest confidence-of the great position he held. He was, it seems, no mere tailor's son at all, but "President Robert," the supreme head...
Accepting, Peck eats a hearty meal in a restaurant and then beckons the proprietor. "I'm awfully sorry," he murmurs casually, "but I don't have anything smaller." It works. It works again with an expensive tailor and again at a fashionable club. Reporters rush to interview the "vest-pocket millionaire." Heiresses of ancient lineage come to squeal like pigs in clover and an old friend shows up with a "sure thing"-a gold mine guaranteed to make millions later for thousands now. It all moves along amusingly-until the hero discovers that he has lost his million...