Word: tailored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lectures the peasantry in the bar on gentlemanly behavior. Another story tells how little Jimmy holds the sheep still while his mother shears them, watches her spin the wool into white thread, goes with her to leave the yarn at the weaver's house, and finally watches the tailor work the finished cloth up into a suit. Then comes the punch line: "The little suit fitted perfectly and on the following Sunday Jimmy was the envy of all the other village boys as he went to church...
...takes nine tailors to make a man, says the old saw, and at least seven suits to make a well-dressed one, say the tailors. With clothes rationing dead for more than a year, London's Savile Row tailors last week issued a stern manifesto declaring that a different suit for each day of the week was an absolute minimum for the well-dressed man; in fact, added the statement from the trade paper Tailor and Cutter, eight was better than seven-to break the dreadful monotony of turning up each Monday in the same old tweed and each...
...During my first six months up there," said Ronnie, "we were doing all right. The village people cooperated with us. We had clothes from a tailor in one town, shoes from a shoe factory in another town, and more than enough medical supplies from a government official...
...sense, on the honored British tradition by which the House of Commons may squeeze information from any Cabinet member. Congress accepted with good will, and members filed into the auditorium of the Library of Congress. But when the Secretary arrived, looking as if he had just left a London tailor, their enthusiasm began to pall...
...Kansas to Hawaii, who are having their first visions of rainsoaked land. Since 1946, when Dr. Vincent Schacfer of the General Electric Research Laboratories announced he had produced rain by scattering dry-ice particles in super-cooled clouds, experts and laymen alike have been enchanted by the prospect of tailor-made weather. Scores of amateurs have been up in the air ever since seeding clouds with everything from dry ice to corn flakes; one man claimed he fathered a storm with carbon dioxide from a fire extinguisher...