Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pundit Lippmann, in an aside, was less appreciative of the President's administrative talents: "When he needs a suit of clothes [he] will find three tailors, will tell each of them to make one leg of the trousers, will let each of them guess which leg he is working on, and will then appoint a fourth tailor to coordinate the trousers...
Marshal Pietro Badoglio's diplomatic staff, who left Rome in a hurry without their grey-striped trousers, finally got in touch with a tailor. He cut them new pairs from the only cloth he could get: brown-spotted yellow tweed...
...point at me," Barrymore told a Hollywood producer (an ex-tailor) who started to bawl him out: "I remember that finger when it had a thimble...
...Ambassador Espil, 56, is sometimes called the "Mona Lisa of the Pam pas" for his thought-concealing smile. He first came to the U.S. in 1919 as first secretary to the Embassy, London-tailored, expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no mere tailor's dummy. He studied the U.S. and its economics. By 1931 he had become Ambassador, and in the next twelve years operated smoothly on friction-fraught issues...
Jimmy Savo, master of pantomime, finally replaced one of his trade-marks-the amorphous suit of clothes in which he has been clowning for 25 years. For a faithfully ill-fitting duplicate, he paid a Park Avenue tailor...