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| sylvia's tailor shop: Inside Scott Hoffman, 2016-03-10 Inside by Scott M. Hoffman Inside by Scott M. Hoffman is an intriguing work detailing the internal workings of the Outfit, an organized crime family, which originated on the South Side of Chicago during prohibition and rose to power in the 1920s. The Outfit has been involved in a wide variety of criminal activities including gambling, loan-sharking, prostitution, drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, labor racketeering, adult and child pornography, political corruption, and murder. The individuals and events in Inside are composites of real people and real events. Inside begins in 1956 with Jimmy Williams, a 47-year-old man with two families—his wife and two children and the Outfit. He’s a good man, a good husband, and a good father, while, at the same time, he is a physically powerful man who is well respected as a consigliere in the Outfit. He keeps his two lives separated, to the point his wife is unaware of what he does. The story is written from the perspective of Jimmy’s son Bobby who, from the age of 8 begins to accompany his father on Outfit business. Jimmy wants him to know what “the life” is like in order for Bobby to decide if this is the future he wants for himself. Take this remarkable journey with Bobby. Will he follow in his father’s footsteps or choose another path? |
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| sylvia's tailor shop: Charity and Sylvia Rachel Hope Cleves, 2014 Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized, essentially, as a married couple. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews. Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Sylvia Pankhurst Rachel Holmes, 2020-09-17 'A wonderful book ... Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times 'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave _______________ Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mother, Emmeline, and elder sister, Christabel. Yet artist Sylvia Pankhurst was the most revolutionary of them all. Sylvia found her voice fighting for votes for women, imprisoned and tortured in Holloway prison more than any other suffragette. But the vote was just the beginning of her lifelong defence of human rights. She engaged with political giants, warned of fascism in Europe, championed the liberation struggles in Africa and India and became an Ethiopian patriot. Her intimate life was no less controversial. The rupture between Sylvia, Emmeline and Christabel became worldwide news, while her romantic life drew public speculation and condemnation. Rachel Holmes interweaves the personal and political in an extraordinary celebration of a life in resistance, painting a compelling portrait of one of the greatest unsung political figures of the twentieth century. 'A monument to an astonishing life' Daily Telegraph, Best Biographies of 2020 'A robust and sensitive biography' Sunday Times, History Books of the Year 'A moving, powerful biography' Guardian |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Sylvia Edgar Mittelhölzer, 1964 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Grand Pursuit Sylvia Nasar, 2011 An instant New York Times bestseller, from the author of A Beautiful Mind: a sweeping history of the invention of modern economics that takes readers from Dickens' London to modern Calcutta. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: The Domino Conspiracy Joseph Heywood, 2015-03-01 Autumn 1960. Nikita Khrushchev is politically adept, visionary, and locked in a fight with the Politburo and a battle with Mao and the Chinese. His country and his political future are in trouble because he has opened doors to the West and espoused the doctrine of peaceful coexistence. Meanwhile, the arms race is crushing the Soviet economy and there is unrest throughout the Communist empire. Changes are imperative. The army must be reduced, money redirected to a consumer economy, and the US neutralized. But the old boars of the Red Army will not be easily displaced; its leaders are intent on saving their country from Khrushchev. A cabal of senior Red Army patriots are led by a man who the world thinks is Khrushchev's unswerving toady. The game is treason, and the tools are Albania's mad-dog leaders, for whom assassination is second nature. What begins subtly soon turns brittle. A rocket technician disappears before a major accident at the Soviet Space Center. In Belgrade a psychotic CIA agent escapes an ambush, vows revenge, and disappears. Khrushchev turns to the Special Operations Group, the elite hunting team featured in the author's prequel, THE BERKUT. In Washington the Bay of Pigs invasion is in the final planning stages, and its timing is tied to the missing CIA agent. He must be found. Two teams, one from Russia and one from the United States, begin a desperate hunt that leads them on an inward spiral toward each other and to a lethal showdown at the 1961 summit in Vienna. There they find themselves in an uneasy alliance as they race to find the American renegade and the Albanian death team, both groups pawns in a global chess game. With a vast canvas of disparate characters and events, The Domino Conspiracy is a coruscating tour de force. Breathtakingly suspenseful, it lays open the myths of the Soviet monolith and reveals the delicate seeds of glasnost and perestroika, movements that were not to flower until three decades later. Readers know how the Soviet story ended; now they will see how it all began. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: American Writers Leonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini, 1974 The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Sylvia's Home Journal , 1879 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Sylvia’s Story (GI Brides Shorts, Book 3) Duncan Barrett, Calvi, 2013-08-29 This is Sylvia’s story, one of four true stories from the book GI Brides. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Just One Catch Tracy Daugherty, 2011-08-02 The New York Times bestselling writer Tracy Daugherty illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of the Catch-22 author Joseph Heller Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII (his plane was filled with so much shrapnel it was a wonder it stayed in the air). Heller wrote seven novels, all of which remain in print. Something Happened and Good as Gold, to name two, are still considered the epitome of satire. His life was filled with women and romantic indiscretions, but he was perhaps more famous for his friendships—he counted Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Carl Reiner, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Mario Puzo, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, and many others among his confidantes. In 1981 Heller was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a debilitating syndrome that could have cost him his life. Miraculously, he recovered. When he passed away in 1999 from natural causes, he left behind a body of work that continues to sell hundreds of thousands of copies a year. Just One Catch is the first biography of Yossarian's creator. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Remnants of Our Life with Your Dementia David R. Topper, 2021-03-31 A poignant account in poetic verse of one man’s journey with his wife, into the all-encompassing realm of her dementia. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: New Hampshire Register, State Year-book and Legislative Manual , 1965 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: American Writers Jay Parini, 2001 Among the 18 writers included in the Supplement are: Andre Dubus George Garrett William Kennedy Jerzy Kozinski Mary Oliver E. Annie Proulx Anne Rice And more |
| sylvia's tailor shop: ALLENTOWN The Story Of A Pittsburgh Neighborhood Allentown History Book Trust, 1990 A history of the Pittsburgh neighborhood known as Allentown |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Sylvia Rafael Ram Oren, Moti Kfir, 2014-07-30 In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that nostalgic journey grew this reflective essay on the tragic career of Jefferson Davis -- not a modern man in any sense of the word but a conservative called to manage what was, in one sense, a revolution. Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back is also a meditation by one of our most respected men of letters on the ironies of American history and the paradoxes of the modern South. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: The Story of Sylvia Rowan Hamilton, 1893 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Dramatic Mirror of the Stage and Motion Pictures , 1917 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Elizabeth Gaskell Patsy Stoneman, 2016-05-16 Offering a combination of psychoanalytic and political analyses of Elizabeth Gaskell's work, this title also presents direct and accomplished chapters on each of the major novels, as well as the major themes in Gaskell's work. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers Diane Catherine Vecchio, 2024-01-04 A new perspective on Jewish history in the South Diane Catherine Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who settled in Upcountry (now called Upstate) South Carolina. Like other parts of the so-called New South, the Upcountry was a center of textile manufacturing and new business opportunities that drew entrepreneurial energy to the region. Working with a rich set of oral histories, memoirs, and traditional historical documents, Vecchio provides an important corrective to the history of manufacturing in South Carolina. She explores Jewish community development and describes how Jewish business leaders also became civic leaders and affected social, political, and cultural life. The Jewish community's impact on all facets of life across the Upcountry is vital to understanding the growth of today's Spartanburg–Greenville corridor. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture, 1870-1914 Rosy Aindow, 2016-12-05 Rosy Aindow examines the way fiction registered and responded to the emergence of a modern fashion industry during the period 1870-1914. She traces the role played by dress in the formation of literary identities, with specific attention to the way that an engagement with fashionable clothing was understood to be a means of class emulation. The expansion of the fashion industry in the second half of the nineteenth century is generally considered to have had a significant impact on the way in which lower income groups, in particular, encountered clothing: many were able to participate in fashionable consumption for the first time. Remaining alert to the historical specificity of these events, this study argues that the cultural perception of the expansion of the industry - namely a predominantly bourgeois fear that it would result in a democratisation in dress - had a profound effect on the way in which fashion was approached by contemporary writers. Drawing on existing cultural analogies that associated fashion with women and artifice, it concludes that women were particularly implicated in fictional accounts of class mobility. This transgression applied not only to women who wore fashionable clothing, but to those working in the fashion industry itself. An allusion to fashion has a socio-specific meaning, one which gained a new potency in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives as a vehicle for the expression of class anxieties. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Sylvia's Soldier George Melville Baker, 1868 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi, 2014-09-02 This “delightful and touching” international bestseller tells the true stories of four British women who married American soldiers after WWII (Daily Mail, UK). American soldiers stationed in the UK came away winning more than just a war, they also won the hearts of young women across Britain. At the end of World War II, more than 70,000 GI brides followed the men they’d married—men they barely knew—to begin a new life in the United States. This volume vividly recounts the stories of four such women as they made America their home. In GI Brides, readers will meet Sylvia Bradley, a loyal, bright-eyed optimist; Rae Brewer, a resourceful, quick-witted tomboy; Margaret Boyle, an English beauty who faced down every challenge; and Gwendolyn Rowe, a brave woman ahead of her time. Though all made the bold choice to leave family and the world they knew, the journey each experienced was unique—ranging from romantic to heartbreaking. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Sylvia Rafael Ram Oren, Moti Kfir, 2014-09-23 There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action.... She knows that she is special and that she possesses unusual and varied abilities.—From the Mossad's psychological evaluation of Sylvia Rafael When Moti Kfir, head of the Academy for Special Operations of the Mossad, first interviewed Sylvia Rafael in a coffee shop, he knew she would make a great combatant for Israel's intelligence agency. She was outgoing, resourceful, brilliant, and had a talent for bonding with others. When Kfir warned her that the mysterious job they'd met to discuss could be dangerous, she simply sat back comfortably in her chair and smiled. Sylvia Rafael is the page-turning account of a young, dedicated agent as told by the man who trained her. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, authors Ram Oren and Moti Kfir tell the story of Rafael's rise to prominence within the Mossad and her intelligence work trying to locate Ali Hassan Salameh—the leader of Palestine's Black September organization and the mastermind behind the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Her team's misidentification of their mark would eventually lead to her arrest and imprisonment for murder and espionage. Now available in English for the first time, Sylvia Rafael offers new insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, its history, and its human cost. It is a gripping, authentic spy story about a fearless defender of the Jewish people. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Harper's Weekly , 1863 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Caribbean Digest , 1983 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: The Illinois Fire Fighter , 1987 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Polk's Orlando and Winter Park (Orange County, Fla.) City Directory , 1962 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: The Significance of Fabrics in the Writings of Elizabeth Gaskell Amanda Ford, 2022-12-30 Elizabeth Gaskell’s writings abound in references to a cultural materiality encompassing different types of fabric, stuffs, calicoes, chintzes and fine-point lace. These are not merely the motifs of the Realist genre but reveal a complex polysemy. Utilizing a metonymic examination of these tropes, this volume exposes the dramatic structural and socio-economic upheaval generated by industrialization, urbanization and the widening sphere of empire. The material evidence testifies to the technological and production innovations evolving diachronically for the period, and the evolution of Manchester as the industrial ‘Cottonpolis’ that clothed the world by the 1840s. This volume analyses Gaskell’s manipulation of the materiality, arguing its firm roots lie in the quotidian of women’s domestic and provincial life within the growing ranks of the middle classes. Exploring Gaskell’s tactile imagination, an embodied relationship with fabrics and sewing, a function of her daily life from an early age, this volume provides insight into the sensory aspects of cloth and its ability to stir affective responses, emotions and memories, whereby worn fabrics and even the absence of previous textile treasures, is poignant, recreating layers of recollection. This book aims to restore the pulsating, dynamic context of ordinary women’s dressed lives and presents innovative interpretations of Gaskell’s texts. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Telephone Directory, Boston and Its Vicinity , 2002 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Annual Report - U. S. Small Business Administration United States. Small Business Administration, 1974 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Sylvia's Lovers Illustrated Elizabeth Gaskell, 2021-03-04 Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, which she called the saddest story I ever wrote. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Alaska Business Directory Alaska Information Service, 1945 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I'll Open a Weapon Shop (Manga) Vol. 5 Ginga Hoshikawa , Yukimi Enoki, 2024-10-01 In need of some quality base materials to make Garnet a new sword, Luke and his bodyguard take a trip to visit Travis' ex-adventuring buddy, now a talented blacksmith. With negotiations a success, the pair start for home, only to run headlong into a torrential rainstorm. They decide to shelter at an inn, but there's only one private room left...Meanwhile, Sakura is intent on repeating her father's efforts to channel divine power with her hihi'irokane katana, and Noir faces her greatest test of courage yet when a mysterious cloaked figure prowls toward the White Wolf Arms in the dead of night. |
| sylvia's tailor shop: Shopping Center Directory , 2002 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: A Study of Street Traffic Conditions, Tompkinsville Business District, Staten Island, New York City Leslie Williams, 1940 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: New York , 2005 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: The Reform Advocate , 1921 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: New Hampshire Register, Farmer's Almanac and Business Directory , 1966 |
| sylvia's tailor shop: The Lampshade Mark Jacobson, 2010-09-14 Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin of prisoners to makes common, everyday lampshades. In The Lampshade, bestselling journalist Mark Jacobson tells the story of how he came into possession of one of these awful objects, and of his search to establish the origin, and larger meaning, of what can only be described as an icon of terror. Jacobson’s mind-bending historical, moral, and philosophical journey into the recent past and his own soul begins in Hurricane Katrina–ravaged New Orleans. It is only months after the storm, with America’s most romantic city still in tatters, when Skip Henderson, an old friend of Jacobson’s, purchases an item at a rummage sale: a very strange looking and oddly textured lampshade. When he asks what it’s made of, the seller, a man covered with jailhouse tattoos, replies, “That’s made from the skin of Jews.” The price: $35. A few days later, Henderson sends the lampshade to Jacobson, saying, “You’re the journalist, you find out what it is.” The lampshade couldn’t possibly be real, could it? But it is. DNA analysis proves it. This revelation sends Jacobson halfway around the world, to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where the lampshades were supposedly made on the order of the infamous “Bitch of Buchenwald,” Ilse Koch. From the time he grew up in Queens, New York, in the 1950s, Jacobson has heard stories about the human skin lampshade and knew it to be the ultimate symbol of Nazi cruelty. Now he has one of these things in his house with a DNA report to prove it, and almost everything he finds out about it is contradictory, mysterious, shot through with legend and specious information. Through interviews with forensic experts, famous Holocaust scholars (and deniers), Buchenwald survivors and liberators, and New Orleans thieves and cops, Jacobson gradually comes to see the lampshade as a ghostly illuminator of his own existential status as a Jew, and to understand exactly what that means in the context of human responsibility. One question looms as his search goes on: what to do with the lampshade—this unsettling thing that used to be someone? It is a difficult dilemma to be sure, but far from the last one, since once a lampshade of human skin enters your life, it is very, very hard to forget. |
Sylvia (singer) - Wikipedia
Sylvia Jane Kirby (December 9, 1956 [1]), known mononymously as Sylvia, is an American country music and country pop singer and songwriter. [2] Her biggest hit (a crossover chart topper), was her single "Nobody" in 1982. [3]
Sylvia Bio — Sylvia - Official Website
Sylvia’s successful singles led to her debut album, Drifter, which peaked at #10 on Billboard’s Country charts in 1981. Her follow-up, the Just Sylvia album, reached #2, and contained her chart-topping, two-million-selling crossover hit, “Nobody.”
Whatever Happened To 1980’s Country Superstar Sylvia?
Feb 20, 2023 · With over four million records sold, Sylvia has a well earned place in country music history. So, whatever happened to Sylvia? Well, the Kokomo, Indiana native is alive and well at the age of 66.
Sylvia Name, Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity
May 7, 2024 · Sylvia is a Latin name that means ‘from the forest’ or ‘woodland.’. It derives from the Latin word “ silva,” which means ‘spirit of the wood,’ ‘forest’ or ‘wood.’. It is a feminine name that represents nature and beauty. Sylvia derives from …
Sylvia - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity
Jun 8, 2025 · Sylvia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "from the forest". Sylvia is the 361 ranked female name by popularity.
Sylvia (singer) - Wikipedia
Sylvia Jane Kirby (December 9, 1956 [1]), known mononymously as Sylvia, is an American country music and country pop singer and songwriter. [2] Her biggest hit (a crossover chart …
Sylvia Bio — Sylvia - Official Website
Sylvia’s successful singles led to her debut album, Drifter, which peaked at #10 on Billboard’s Country charts in 1981. Her follow-up, the Just Sylvia album, reached #2, and contained her …
Whatever Happened To 1980’s Country Superstar Sylvia?
Feb 20, 2023 · With over four million records sold, Sylvia has a well earned place in country music history. So, whatever happened to Sylvia? Well, the Kokomo, Indiana native is alive and well …
Sylvia Name, Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity
May 7, 2024 · Sylvia is a Latin name that means ‘from the forest’ or ‘woodland.’. It derives from the Latin word “ silva,” which means ‘spirit of the wood,’ ‘forest’ or ‘wood.’. It is a feminine …
Sylvia - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity
Jun 8, 2025 · Sylvia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "from the forest". Sylvia is the 361 ranked female name by popularity.
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The name Sylvia is of Latin origin, deriving from the word “silva” meaning “forest” or “woods”. In Roman mythology, Silvia was the mother of Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of …
Meaning, origin and history of the name Sylvia
Dec 1, 2024 · Variant of Silvia. This has been the most common English spelling since the 19th century. Name Days?
Sylvia - Name Meaning, What does Sylvia mean? - Think Baby Names
Sylvia as a girls' name is pronounced SIL-vee-ah. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Sylvia is " woods, forest". The Latin form Silvia was more popular for centuries until recently. Rhea …
Sylvia (2003) - IMDb
When poet and novelist Sylvia Plath committed suicide in 1963, she became the archetype of the tortured artist - particularly for sensitive young people who came to romanticize her end and …
Sylvia - Name Meaning and Origin
The name Sylvia is of Latin origin and means "from the forest" or "of the woods." It is derived from the Latin word "silva," which means "forest." The name Sylvia is often associated with nature, …
