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...suddenly remembered that the friend with whom he had been living in Newark was about to be dispossessed. He was afraid he would not find him if he stayed in the hospital any longer. He felt all right, so he got up, wrapped his pajama-clad hulk in a blanket, clambered over the window sill, slid down 35 feet of water pipe to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Joe | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...minutes later, pajama-clad Knapp padded into the confusion of his study and mumbled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RABBIT SLEEPS WHILE FIRE AND WATER DESTROY MOHAIR | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

Occasionally the pajamas are green instead of pink, but there are always pajamas and the woman is always blonde. Discontented New York wives shrink from the hoary tale, but the state law which permits divorce only on grounds of adultery leaves them no alternative. Chief sufferers are referees in divorce proceedings, forced to hear over & over the same old story of raid, surprised husband, pajama-clad blonde. Last week in Manhattan a referee rebelled. His victim was a woman famed in the U. S. and Europe for her different parties, indifferent singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Full Dress | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

Startled policemen blazed back. But five were almost instantly killed, the rest surrendered. Grimly the man in the bright yellow shoes barked orders. Part of his men set off at the double, rang the door bells of prominent officials, rushed upstairs and routed them from bed, hustled them pajama-clad and barefoot to the Central Police Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...woke up in their hotel, blinked at two Swedish maidens wearing crowns of lighted candles. Known as "Lucia Brides," they served coffee, an old Swedish custom observed in the dawn each Dec. 13. Sensing that a photographer had sneaked into the room to flashlight the prizeman & wife in bed, pajama-clad Mr. Lewis tusseled with the fellow, threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Sauk Center & Plate of Gold | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

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