Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no schooners logging eight knots over a placid sea with sails shaking; there are no sails like those of the "Bounty," made of shirt-like consistency. This is a real picture of real ships on real seas. Storms are not filmed in a bath tub with models, and everything is so realistic that you can almost smell the fish and feel the moist salt spray...
...custody of a deputy U. S. marshal, up shuffled aging R. C. Tackett, clad in a homemade shirt and overalls. Jailed in Kentucky on a shooting charge, he had refused to venture up to Washington except under Federal protection. With his Adam's apple bobbing, Tackett kept glancing nervously back at the bosses and deputies in the audience as he told the Senate Committee how the dynamiting had been plotted among Unthank, himself, Patterson and the prosecuting attorney of adjoining Bell County. He had been too drunk to do the job, he twanged, but had been paid...
Bootjack McDaniels, a lanky Negro with powerful shoulders, was asked to confess first. He gibbered that he was innocent. A mobster stepped forward with a plumber's blow torch, lighted it. Another ripped McDaniels' shirt off. Again he refused to confess. Then the blue-white flame of the torch stabbed into his black chest. He screamed with agony. The torch was withdrawn. He reiterated his innocence. Again the torch was turned on him and the smell of burned flesh floated through the woods. Again he screamed, and when it was withdrawn this time he was ready to confess...
...every Italian wears a black shirt. Not every Italian writer is dead, like Pirandello, nor in exile, like Ignazio Silone (TIME, April 5). Last week U. S. readers were again introduced to Author Alberto Moravia, in an extremely readable if not altogether first-rate novel which managed to throw some highlights on contemporary Rome without once mentioning Mussolini...
...makes little difference whether the editor writes about mince pies or big politics. "Public opinion is not molded by editors." (Editor White figured that out before the election revelations of 1936.) And an editor with no inconsistencies is either a stuffed-shirt or a liar. In current footnotes he points out some of his own. He thinks he used to be too noisy boosting the wonders of Emporia and Kansas. He is "ashamed" that he called Bryan "a shallow fellow," and Socialist Eugene V. Debs "a charlatan," blushes over his flag-waving editorials during the Spanish-American and World Wars...