Word: pajama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PaJama Party...
...Hour Day. In his early campaigning days, Muñoz often trekked around in a pajama coat or open-necked shirt. "Putting on a necktie," he says, "alters a man's whole character." He worked odd hours, thought nothing of sitting up all night in a good political discussion. As Governor, he has modified many of his old habits, and now usually turns up in public looking clean but rumpled in a seersucker suit with a sober four-in-hand tie. He puts in regular office hours, and during the legislative session, sometimes worked an 18-hour day. During...
...belly. Hintz staggered back into the apartment. "Maisie, I'm dying," he gasped at his wife. "Johnny Dunn shot me." Andy Hintz hung on to life long enough to see Dunn brought before him in the hospital and to identify him. He tried to pull up his pajama jacket and show Dunn the holes in his body. "You know what these are, too, don't you?" he rasped. Then he died...
Half a Loaf. In Chicago, M. J. Lovell, director of the National Association of Shirt and Pajama Manufacturers, bit his' lip and reported that pajama sales average only half a pajama per man per year - a situation he described as "inadequate...
...Drums Went Bang. But in one sense the speechmaking and politicking were simply groundwork for the Legion's parades. They blossomed by the scores. There were informal processions by rigid but hilarious ranks of pajama-clad men. There were exploratory tours by bands and drum & bugle corps. On the first night there was a monster demonstration of that peculiar production of American fantasy-the 40 & 8 locomotive. There were 38 of them in all, many of them amazing machines which emitted real smoke, towed boxcars and whistled like Old 97. About 200,000 people jammed sidewalks and rooftops...