Word: pajamaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some stories have relatively happy endings. En route from London to Rome, Tom Dozier was aroused early one morning on shipboard, made his pajama-clad way to the door and, blinking, saw Poet T. S. Eliot bearing a written invitation to dinner. In West Texas, Bill Johnson was sent a desperately needed telegraphic money order, only to learn that the sole Western Union operator within 100 miles had just broken...
...another wing, pajama-clad Jamal Imami, a wealthy, uncompromising right-wing Deputy sat on the edge of a cot and explained to a British newsman: "The only possible solution is for this government to be overthrown. We shall stay here until this is achieved." A tray of dirty dishes and a thermos bottle perched on a nearby window ledge. Servants strolled through the building bearing food and bedrolls for the 30 editors and Deputies who had taken refuge in the Majlis from the nationalist...
...camp renamed Shaar Aliyah (Gate of Immigration), for two weeks or so of medical isolation. The heterogeneous immigrants stroll aimlessly: a gangling youth in a heavy blue ski suit that was fine for the weather he knew in Rumania will gawk at shriveled, turbaned old men clad in the pajama suits of North African Arabs; chattering old ladies from Hungary, clutching fur scarves, look incredulously on squatting North African women in long cotton shifts...
...some visiting oversees the appearance of a boys' school must be preserved; for the girls' visiting parents, the appearance of a girls' school. The visiting parents see pajama-clad little girls snoozing peacefully. When they close the door, pajama-clad little boys spring into the beds for the benefit of the approaching overseers, preceded, of course, by little girls springing out of bed. The beautiful soprano voices of the choir drop into a rearing bass at the appropriate time. Appearances are dropped in a climatic melee featuring the girls' lacrosse team against the courageous rugger team...
Among those selected as the "best pajamaed males in the U.S. in 1950" (by pajama manufacturers): Vice President Alben Berkley, Dwight Eisenhower, Erroll Flynn, Ezzard Charles, Nelson Rockefeller, Leopold Stokowski...