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...National Palace, Nicaragua's Constituent Assembly awaited them with the product of five months' labor-a new constitution. President Roman solemnly accepted it, then watched nephew Anastasio sworn in as a lifetime Senator, under a tailor-made constitutional provision that awards such honor to all ex-Presidents...
...days later, George was back with British passports and British identities (Szulc became "Ronald Drummond"; Kuper, "James Hughes"). They were also given Scottish birth certificates, plane tickets for Canada. Not long after that, the two Poles were in Toronto. Szulc got a job with a furrier, Kuper with a tailor...
Meanwhile Ricci had gone to fetch a couple of bottles of Chianti to give his caller as a Christmas present. He entered the study carrying the wine. Capocci brusquely announced he wanted to demonstrate a new invention, produced a large pair of tailor's scissors. He took them apart and challenged Ricci to a duel. He handed the blunt part of the scissors to the Minister and said: "I take it that as a gentleman you choose this...
...Bronze. As he pumps visitors for ideas, he shows off his treasures: fine saddles, ship models, bronze figures of cowboys on bucking broncos, cast from clay he has modeled. Usually he brings out. a bottle, though he no longer touches the stuff himself and sticks to cigarettes -the tailor-made kind...
Statistitchian. In St. Paul, Hjalmar Carlson, a tailor, announced firmly that there are 7,740 stitches in a man's vest, 9,561 in the pants, 29,888 in a coat...