Word: pith
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...around the island's steep 13-mile perimeter the Pacific lathered its boiling white waves. Offshore the President could see porpoise sporting glossily. Shark fins cut through the tropical waters like grey scimitars. And a flight of boatswain birds chattered about his head as he laid aside his pith helmet, sat down under a palm tree to share Boston baked beans and brown bread with a parcel of real treasure hunters, to talk of plunder, cities sieged and pirate gold...
...companies that like to tickle their customers with offers of something for nothing - or almost nothing. High-piled was the Palmer House with balloons, sheets, watch fobs, razor blades, doll carriages, billfolds, tumblers, electric irons, toasters, waffle irons, windproof cigaret lighters, astrological charts, pith helmets. Careening up & down the crowded aisles in a skimpy bathing suit was a shapely red-haired young lady on a gleaming bicycle...
Instead of sailing for New York last week, comfortably full of U. S. tourists, Italy's gaudy, ornate, popular Vulcania cleared from Naples pack-jammed with excited Italian troops. They waved pith helmets, brandished rifles tipped with the Italian tricolor and roared alternately "Live The Duce!" and "Live The King!" In each soldier's breast pocket was a handy picture of Il Duce inspiringly autographed...
Among other business to reach the Mayor's desk last week was a photograph of a new summer uniform. It showed a gangling rawboned constable smiling toothily in a pith helmet, a light shirt trimmed with dark collar, cuffs and tie, shorts, golf stockings, and black and white sport shoes. A huge gun hung half way down to his knees...
Males: Shirt (two pockets), Cotton wash trousers, Lower half of underwear, Socks without garters or no socks at all, Ventilated shoes, Pith helmet or light straw...