Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paramount Pictures' publicity department: "Gary Cooper sent one of his shirt tails to a Ladies' Aid Society in Rapid City, S. D., in response to the following letter: 'In an effort to raise money for the church, we are making ladies' kitchen aprons out of shirt tails of noted men. We would appreciate it very much if you would be good enough to send us one of your shirt tails. We thank you very much and hope to be able to reciprocate some time...
...This team has great strength on the attack. Indeed, I defy anybody to pick a more offensive aggregation." So wrote massive, loudly liberal Columnist Heywood Broun, old New York World sports reporter, in his syndicated column, picking his own 1937 All-America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice...
...gold brassiere and flowered wrap-around skirt of Lakme, could see at a glance that there was more in Miss Pons than met the ear. When Suzette (Lily Pons), singing in Paris with a jazz band, declares "It is to sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade her shirt, etc. for a brief costume of feathers and a habitat in darkest Africa. Her purpose, inspired by Pressagent Corny Davis (Jack Oakie), is to catch the attention of Talent Scout Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton), in Africa...
...shirt with built-in necktie...
Much against advice of wiseacres, who said he would lose his shirt. Ira Arthur Hirschmann, music-loving vice president of Manhattan's Saks-Fifth Avenue department store, last year founded the New Friends of Music. Its purpose: to give Manhattanites the very best in chamber music, played by the very best artists (TIME, Nov. 16). Before selling a ticket for his series of 16 Sunday concerts, Mr. Hirschmann boldly took on some $9,000 worth of contracts with artists and Town Hall. The season over, astute Friend of Music Hirschmann could grin at calamity-howlers...