In the immediate wake of Harry Truman's unlikely ascent to the presidency upon FDR's death in 1945, the former haberdasher was forced to grapple with enormous challenges. |
The butcher, chandler and haberdasher were all nearby, as they'd all been able to afford farms near to the railway. |
Names of skilled artisans, however, are French: carpenter, draper, haberdasher, joiner, mason, painter, plumber, and tailor. |
Karan was born Donna Faske in 1948 in New York and raised on Long Island. Her mother was a model and her father a haberdasher. |
Of all his roles, however, he's probably best known to the world at large as a haberdasher to celebrities. |
He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher. |