Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complying with the new convention whereby Metropolitan Opera stars show cinema patrons how jolly and unpretentious they really are by breaking into jazz, Miss Moore rivals the recent efforts of Lily Pons and Gladys Swarthout by moaning an expurgated version of "Minnie the Moocher" while attired in a flannel shirt and trousers. This is the comic climax of the picture. It is followed by the formal climax in which, at a song festival in which she is appearing as a gesture of loyalty to an orchestra conductor (Henry Stephenson). Miss Moore favors the sound track with Schubert's Serenade...
Yesterday into historic Harvard 2 the professor strode with formal, graceful steps. No hat or coat marred the trim lines of his figure; his neat tie, neat shirt, neat suit were the envy of his students...
...special 100% Nazi school to which local Germans are urged by strongest Nazi pressure to send their sons. In late October, Ambassador von Ribbentrop, who nearly always travels by air, finally set out by train for London, arrived at Victoria Station wearing a Storm Trooper's brown shirt. To his official British welcomers he sounded off: "Der Führer is convinced that the only real danger for Europe and the British Empire is the spread of Communism-that most terrible of all diseases-terrible because people only realize the real danger when it is too late! Closer collaboration...
...Hart, Schaffner & Marx in reporting earnings of $484,000 as against $273,000 the year before: "Profits are still small in proportion to sales." Profit margins for American Woolen were even more unsatisfactory, the company's profits dropping from $2,740,000 to $1,929,000. But Manhattan Shirt Co. more than doubled its earnings, the 1936 figure being...
Looking like a parliament of soldiers, the uniformed Reichstag waited 30 minutes for its Messiah to arrive in flaring black military breeches, well-shined boots and unadorned brown shirt. Up jumped the Reichstag to salute and "HEIL HITLER!" Down sat the Reichstag. Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick nominated Minister-Prasident-Generaloberst Hermann Wilhelm Goring, fresh from his parleys in Rome with II Duce, to be Speaker again. Up jumped the Reichstag, thus electing him unanimously...