Sentences with phrase «worked as a seamstress»

After the family settled in California, his mother worked as a seamstress; his father had jobs as a dishwasher and janitor.

A native of New Orleans» impoverished lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, Luter was the third of five children raised by a divorced mother who worked as a seamstress and a surgical scrub assistant, according to Thom Rainier, president and CEO of the Nashville, Tennessee - based LifeWay Christian Resources and a friend of Luter's.

His father, who came to Britain in the 1960s, was a bus driver and his mother made extra money working as a seamstress from home.

Killers Richard Matt and David Sweat broke out of the upstate facility in 2015 after seducing a woman who worked as a seamstress in the maximum security compound.

Rosa's personal struggle against institutionalized racism reaches its zenith on the night of December 1, 1955, when, bone - weary after a long day's work as a seamstress at a Montgomery department store, she refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man — and is promptly arrested.

Ralph sets Nicholas up with a low wage work opportunity at an oppressive boarding school in Yorkshire; meanwhile, back in London, Ralph gets Kate work as a seamstress, but also subjects the young lady to many dehumanizing situations in order to get the investment of rich, old creep Sir Hawk (Edward Fox).

She has been working as a seamstress and running Mainz Dry Cleaners in Manteca, CA with her husband for 22 years.

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They design their own products and buy all materials locally, supporting the local economy and allowing for sustainability as seamstresses graduate from their programs and begin working from home to build their own businesses.

She has lived in Vilcabamba all her life, working for some years as a seamstress.

Both full - time mothers and the considerable number of working mothers - employed as domestics, factory workers, seamstresses, teachers, secretaries, clerks, or telephone operators - no doubt embraced and benefited from already - prepared solid infant food.

From there, I wandered from job to job, working as a housekeeper in a casino one month and as a seamstress another month.

Anderson drinks in the stylish townhouse where much of the film takes place, framing a spiral staircase in worshipfully low angles as Reynolds's maids, seamstresses, and models ascend it each morning to commence in the ritual of their work.

As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara is luckier than the slaves who work in the fields.

A trained artist in Korea, Younghye Han left that behind and has spent the last 24 years, working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, as a seamstress and running her own dry cleaning business in Manteca, California.

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Hi, Layla, Would love to help out with painting and seamstress stuff — look forward to the flea marketing as the reward for hard work!!!

As a former seamstress who paid her rent by sewing, while working a full time job that did not come close to paying my monthly bills........