Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bloody Shirt, World-War Model" and "The Rally," as well as in a vigorous editorial defending the publication of the latter...
Although "The Bloody Shirt," a striking narration of political chicanery in the American Legion, will command a wider circle of readers than any other of the Advocate's current offerings, it is around "The Rally" that immediate Harvard interest will chiefly center...
...extraordinarily interesting issue, the November Advocate conceals under pseudonyms the authorship of its two most controversial offerings. About the identity of "Richard Caxton", who writes "The Bloody Shirt, World-War Model", and "William Breaksbread" and "Kid Marlow", authors of "The Rally", an uninitiate reviewer had better hazard no guesses. He can assert, however, that these gentlemen handsomely assist the Advocate's announced intention of making itself both more timely and more readable. Both subjects, the American Legion and a department (or is one point of "The Rally" that, after all it isn't a department?) of the University...
...hall where things were distributed, I was embarrassed beyond words. The Red Cross clerk insolently asked me "What do you want, chow?" I was so ashamed that I'd preferred to die." Now those people are sensitive, they have a little pride. When they give, they give their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give you beans, and bacon, if you are stranger they refuse you and let you starve...
...neck and young love is set straight again. Hundreds of young women crowded the theatres where this picture showed last week. Romantic vocal melodies on the vitaphone accompany the soapy looks and violent embraces of the principals. Best shot: a nameless extra in a cap and an army shirt sweeping out the empty ballroom of the club after the party...