putterings, 583-580
“Like as not he’s puttering round, man fashion, washing up the supper dishes.” ₁ still puttering about in characteristic fashion, debating the policy involved in ₂ aandacht voor het vertoon external signs ₃ custom cutter, style or puttering clothes do make the man always puttering and fuming about trying from which it will be seen that Spring is intensely practical. ₄
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sources :
1 Donald D. Garcelon, “Aunt Matilda’s Visitor,” The Harvard Advocate 69:9 (Cambridge, Mass., June 22, 1900) : 141-142 / more 2 from the second of eight public letters from the local newspapers, presented toward the end of James K. Shen, “The Arrest of Chinese in Cleveland,” The Chinese Students’ Monthly 21:3 (January 1926) : 39-54 / more 3 ex Sociological Abstracts 38 (1990) : 1096 entry for Loosveldt, Geert, Aandacht voor het vertoon: stijl of bricolage? (Attention to the External Signs: Style or Puttering?), Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 1989, 10, 3-4, 479-507 / more 4 interview with Samuel H. Spring, Secretary, National Association of Merchant Tailors of America, in “Cleveland Chatter and Cartoons,” in Gentlemen’s Fashions (“Formerly Advanced Fashions and The Custom Cutter”) 8:2 (March 1913) : 82-86 / more
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