Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later, after they had moved to Lincoln, that Father & Son Coryell began to dress like twins. Somewhat tentative at first, this custom speedily became systematic with the Coryells. When one buys a suit the other goes along and gets an identical one. Neither ever buys a necktie, a shirt or a pair of socks without taking a duplicate home. The Coryell taste runs to costumes of some audacity and each ensemble is numbered to save time in the morning. Whichever Coryell wakes up first telephones the other and says, "I'm wearing the 23 suit...
Vaggy was buttoning his shirt but in his excitement putting the wrong holes round the wrong buttons. "I'll make a list. By Jupiter, I'll make a list...
...Levingston in Freeport who was a doctor of sorts. He was probably better-known as a hunter and fisher. He was well-known in Freeport; his clothes were of the best, money seemed to be plentiful, his diamonds were famous, notably the one he wore on his collarless shirt. His wife was a charming woman, cultured and much younger than the "Doctor...
...Philadelphia from a Michigan farm, started to work for his uncle at 20. He has been working in the same spot ever since, and though the building has changed the atmosphere has not. ASCO's general offices are as cluttered as a warehouse. President Park works in shirt sleeves behind a partition, washes his hands like the rest of the staff at an open sink in the corner. Pay telephones are provided for visitors. Placards warn salesmen against smoking or parking their cars on the left side of the street outside. Mottoes proclaim, the thoughts of pious Mr. Robinson...
...blue uniform of the Cavalier's Captain William Neville Gumming, veteran of the trans-Mediterranean run, who stepped jauntily ashore carrying kid gloves at a rakish angle in his left hand (see cut, p. 52), brought quips from reporters, who asked if he had brought along a clean shirt. "Oh, I say," he replied, "I'm going back tomorrow...