Word: garments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lotion. From the balcony of one store the looters tossed goods to carts lined up below. One driver tried to make off with a packet of under wear, used his fists in vain to hold it against a mob of rivals When he had lost the last garment, he burst into tears of rage, drove his horse & cart full tilt into the crowd...
...Oscar A. Olsen has been directing the personnel work. Sgt. William M. Chesebrough, message center chief, has been boosting everybody's spirits by giving snappy service with mail and messages. Supply Sgt. Carmen J. Riccelli has learned every man's name and has replaced many a torn and tattered garment with garb more suited to students at Harvard. Tech. 4 Robert W. Leonard, Cpl. Roger H. Potter, Tech. 5 George G. Vaughan, Pfe. Harold E. Bloomberg, Tech. 5 A. A. Dickson, and Pvt. John O. Scheuermann are others who have kept the ball rolling smoothly since the students arrived...
...year-old International Ladies Garment Workers' Union last week pulled off another "first" in the labor movement.* I.L.G.W.U.'s 35,000 cloak & suit workers (one-eighth of its total membership) signed a new five-year contract in which the only major change was a provision for their employers to put $2,000,000 a year into an old-age insurance fund. Under the new agreement, each cloakmaker, at 65, will receive $600 a year-a good deal more than most of them can expect from Federal old-age benefits...
...bewildered by her brusque, preoccupied behavior, soon found there was a man in the story, and learned enough of life to leave adolescence behind him forever. Touching as a study of a growing youth, Lights is Author Weidman's first major break away from the tough, garment-district world of I Can Get It For You Wholesale, What's In It For Me? etc. It lacks the sure, knowledgeable control of those works...
...value. Unfortunately they can not be bound in pastel-pink ribbons, and filed away as neatly as love letters. Hungry moths and avid vermin are too liable to corrupt such earthly treasures. Hence they often pad the maws of ashcans and end their usefulness in dumps. For a cherished garment or a much-thumbed book, that fate is bitter. Far better to fling both clothes and texts, with a gesture of sublime extravagance, into the eager coffers of the Brooks House Old Clothes Drive which are secreted in the janitor's office and library of each House...