Word: nightshirters
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...morning of Dec. 12 he awoke at his usual hour, 5. At 5:30 he heard shots. His bodyguard ran in to tell him there seemed to be some sort of mutiny, that he had better take to the mountain behind the house. Dressed only in his nightshirt and without his false teeth, he tried to leave by a side door. It was locked. He and two of his men had to climb a ten-foot wall. On top of it the Generalissimo slipped and fell into the moat outside, a drop of 30 feet. For three minutes he could...
...Nightshirts. WPB had already cut an inch and a half off men's shirttails, had forbidden pockets and pointed collars, to save material. Last week WPB discussed pajamas, considered restricting sleeping garments to three styles: one shortened version of the old-fashioned nightshirt (now worn voluntarily by only 1% of U.S. males), two types of pajamas stripped of collars, lapels, pockets, sashes, piping...
...greatest adventure began with the sudden conviction that he could fly.* For a while he just practiced Immelmann turns around the dining-room chandelier, in his nightshirt, but before he was done he had created an international situation, and he promised Mully never to fly again...
...Thriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...
...across the Deep South, suave, wavy-haired Archduke Otto von Habsburg passed a night at Meridian, Miss.'s Lamar Hotel. After he left next day the management got a frantic letter from his secretary. Count von Degenfeld: would they please forward pronto to Austin, Tex. a nightshirt-snowy broadcloth and with Habsburg crest on the pocket-which His Royal Highness had left behind...