Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard it said that Henry James Cumberpatch, a cinema doorman, "affected by the news from Palestine, took a revolver and went out into the street-quite wrongheadedly -to wreak vengeance upon some innocent Jew." Cumberpatch was charged with using the weapon as a club to beat one Dan Cipin, tailor...
Through a small miracle of timing and placement, the news story revealing definite preparations for a United Nations armed force, appeared in Tuesday's papers neatly juxtaposed with a tailor-made of the need for a Force: the story of the plot against the French government. This melodramatic plan thus highlighted one of the most heartening moves in recent months in the direction of an autonomous supra-national authority in world affairs...
Republican politicos, who know a tailor-made campaign issue when they see it, were happily trying one on for size last week. The fit was just about perfect. Last summer's Kansas City primary, in which President Harry Truman successfully purged Democratic Congressman Roger Slaughter-"If he's right," said Truman, "I'm wrong"-was shaping into a natty political scandal...
...white-mustached John Angel has been making statues for the unfinished Cathedral more than 20 years. One of a tailor's ten children, he grew up in the British cathedral town of Exeter, entered a Gothic studio as an apprentice ornament-carver when he was 14. Says Sculptor Angel: "I never went to school; I'm an ignoramus...
...Government has been tooting its trumpet in the British Isles for years. In Ontario House files are dossiers on some 125,000 applicants who have signed up to go to Ontario; about 30 hopefuls a day are still coming in. Just last week, 35-year-old William Dent, a tailor who is tired of tailoring, and his 33-year-old wife applied. Said Dent: "We hear they want farm laborers out there and we thought it would be a wonderful chance for us. We don't expect anything like you see in the movies. We just want a home...