Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Red Cross asked for blood, 700 convicts volunteered, 144 already have donated. Men in the prison tailor shop cut material for Red Cross sewing units. Soon the convicts will begin to reclaim rubber-covered copper wire salvaged and brought back from Pearl Harbor. In a million-dollar, convict-built factory, 1,000 skiff-type commando assault boats will be made if San Quentin's bid is accepted...
Parts of a World is a book to quicken people's awareness of the difference between rote and imagination. His 60-odd lyrics are tailored to meet the specifications of his idea of an ordered world. They are all intended to show that the imagination is that faculty in man which enables him to tailor facts after his heart's desire. The tailoring, however, is not to be done by mere wishful thinking, but by the bowing of the skilled workman over his fully apprehended...
...Soldiers, sailors and Marines, bent on fun or a furlough home, hock rings, watches, civvies, tailor-made officer uniforms, trench coats, portable radios-anything but Government-issued goods, which hock shops cannot accept. To the amazement of pawnbrokers, servicemen are quick to redeem their property-especially the ubiquitous wrist watch inscribed from the "girl back home...
...Hecht story concerns a tail-coat, bought from the tailor by Charles Boyer, and passing in turn to Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Robeson, ending up ingloriously on a scarecrow in a poor negro's corn patch. The coat brings happiness to some and serves as a jinx to others, but it travels merrily on its way, oblivious of all the trouble it is causing. The film is divided into five sequences, the first is marvelous, but by the end of the two hours, the audience is more than ready to say farewell...
...human element came into play at the same moment as the machine. When the lieutenant drew his circles, he was thinking not so much of the job, but of what a wonderful break he had-"as though made to order by God, the master tailor!" He would not be blamed for the escape. He might be advanced for his promptness in dealing with...