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...Roman dress. No more stuffy white shirts--a black, heavy shirt with the top button tied and the collar points narrow fits smoothly underneath a cordaroy brown. Let a bright handkerchief hang from the pocket. Keep the pants light, bright, and your shoes a plain, smart dress loafer...

Author: By George S. Abrams, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: Alcohol Craze Upsets F allFashions With Chic 'Dress to Drink' Spree | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...council decides to fire Pascal unless the whole senior class passes the government examination for a graduation certificate. As an added obstacle, they insist that Albert, a boy whom they consider the village loafer, also pass. Actually, association with Pascal has made a new boy of Albert, and he passes with the rest after making a Tom Paine-type speech eulogizing Pascal and freedom...

Author: By Robert J. Schornberg, | Title: Passion for Life | 5/3/1952 | See Source »

...Dailies," and set out, as one editor put it, "to arouse the 'gee whiz!' emotion." The Examiner's boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken prospector-then made it back, as circulation multiplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The King Is Dead | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...loafing headquarters, there never was a time that I did not loaf with you and treat you as a guest. This loafing has now advanced to a point where it is ruining my business! This is my way of asking your cooperation -saying Goodbye to all of you, my loafer friends-with respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...guess I'm just a loafer," he smiled, "with never an idle moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFILE | 10/19/1950 | See Source »

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