Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jacob Maged, 54, Jersey City tailor who in 1934 was jailed for three days because he charged 35? instead of 40? to press a suit of clothes, thus violating an NRA code; of cancer; in Jersey City...
...Lincoln's most active denuders. This year, again as a birthday present, Hertz has the grace to throw around Lincoln's bony shoulders a vast mantle of myth. It fits no better than Lincoln's baggy suits did, but as Editor Hertz knows, no editorial tailor will ever be able to fit formal clothes on that great torso...
...British tailors' magazine, Tailor and Cutter, called Winston Churchill, famed for his many hats, his correct but rumpled clothes, a "sartorial chameleon," declared...
...luncheon given in his honor by the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America and the Merchant Tailor Designers of America, bigheaded Bachelor Lucius Beebe, most painstaking dude of Manhattan chit-chatterers, declared: "Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge his fancy far more lavishly and colorfully were it not for the jealousy, usually expressed in the form of sarcasm, by the women he encounters. ... No woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself...
Best box-office attraction in the Near East is tall, sleepy-eyed, sickly Mohammed Abdul-Wahab, Egypt's premier crooner and actor. Once an unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...