Word: pajamas
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...sock," Mrs. Jacobson commented, "thrown way under here out of my reach, what do those boys think I am a lost and found department. Why, the work I have to do to keep these rooms in order! My lands, you'd think a cyclone had hit it every morning. Pajama tops here, and the bottoms in the study, I can't understand how they get dressed. Well, I know they always are in a hurry to get to a class, but you'd think they would have time at least to put on two shoes of the same type...
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...
...Fields Clarke. British and Indian troops including the famed East Kent Buffs, scourge of many an Indian uprising, moved against them. In London Mr. U BaPe, Burmese representative at the Round Table Conference, sought to exonerate his countrymen on the ground that despatches said the rioters wore "only blue pajama bottoms...
...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...
Some time later the manager of the hotel found the pajama-clad, tuberculosis-ravaged, bullet-torn figure of Jack ("Legs") Diamond collapsed near the elevator, where he had dragged himself with the aid of a "coupla shots o' whiskey." Diamond was about the best Manhattan could boast in the way of a big-time gangster. They rushed him in a dying state to the Polyclinic Hospital in a private ambulance under the care of his private physician. When the police learned of the affair, half the detectives in the city jumped into the case...