Word: flannell
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...hover around the bed, urging this & that on the dying dictator, until he shouts: "Shut up, you bore me!'' The conversation is of little else but the sickroom, the Emperor turning and twisting in pain on his iron bed. or hobbling feebly about the room in a flannel nightshirt. He shouts: "Don't maul...
...impress them by shooting disappearing ink at them and shocking them electrically when they are induced to shake hands with you. It cannot be disputed that squirting ink is a quick and inexpensive way of breaking down a social reserve that might be unshaken by the very darkest grey flannel, but with this break down the entire fabric of social dency and respectability is torn into shreds all for the sake of letting out a few miserable frustrations and filling a vulgar tradesman's coffers...
...Philadelphia Pitcher Curt Simmons, 22, after 20 months in the Army (mainly on occupation duty in Germany), shucked off his fatigues for baseball flannel and pitched a winning seven-hitter, 8-2, against the Chicago Cubs...
...hour or so later, at the Justice Department Building, Howard McGrath walked out of his office, his Homburg pulled forward, his double-breasted grey flannel rumpled, a glazed look in his eyes. His voice quavered as he talked to the waiting press; no tears rolled down his cheeks, but his eyes brimmed. Why was he fired? "I guess my usefulness came to an end." What advice did he have for his successor? "A fine man ... I have suggested that he ought to supply himself with an asbestos suit...
...obediently swallow it whole. In 1952, things didn't go that way. Because of the fierce pulling and tugging between Taft and Ike supporters, the party bigwigs couldn't agree; they had to let the conventions decide. Last week 1,813 business and professional men, farmers and flannel-shirted woodsmen gathered at Bangor to do their unusual duty...