Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wild turkey, make a little cash as vegetable pickers, hunting guides, sideshow attractions in amusement parks. Their chief recreation consists of listening to phonograph records, drinking a mixture of moonshine and Sloan's liniment. A Seminole marriage is complete when the bride's family has provided a shirt for the groom; the groom's family, a bed; and the groom has moved into the bride's house. To divorce his wife a Seminole husband simply moves out. Florida "crackers," delighted at having a few humans on whom they can look down, amuse themselves by shooting...
...Make Real Ghost Writers." Real Ghost Writer Bodenheim, pale, unshaven and muss-haired, stormed inside, announced that he was "on the brink of starvation." He had applied for relief six weeks before, but none had come and his landlord had evicted him. He pointed to his threadbare clothes, dirty shirt, unlaced boots. Said he: "All I ask is enough for three meals a day and a cheap room." He waved a grimy hand. "I ask no wine." For 45 minutes, Author Bodenheim was closeted with the relief administrator who promised him $15 for back rent, $2.50 a week for food...
...When the shirt-sleeved man in the green eyeshade scribbles LONG FLAYS NEW DEAL, or MILLIONS STARVE IN UKRAINE, or FIEND GUTS TOT, he is simply doing a job according to the dictates of space and the special characteristics of his newspaper. In all likelihood he neither knows nor cares that he is "writing in a new tense, unknown before headlines were invented." Last week one Dr. Manuel Rosenblum, language teacher at Buffalo Collegiate Centre, gravely announced that newspapers have created the "sigmatic present" tense. Sigmatic means the addition of the letter "s" to any word...
...street cleaner whose life ambition is to learn to play "Macushla" on the fiddle. The furniture dealer rescues a despondent banker who is trying to commit suicide by plunging into a pond. The actress keeps house for them and is dejected only when the furniture dealer wears a shirt she has not had time to iron. By the time the picture ends, the violinist has a job, the street cleaner knows his tune, the banker is about to reward the other two according to their deserts...
Brahms lived his last 35 years in Vienna where he was celebrated for his gruff, churlish ways, his eccentric appearance. He went around in a shabby alpaca coat, trousers inches too short. His beard covered his shirt front, so he never wore a collar. On rainy days he took his daily walk in the Prater wrapped in an old-fashioned green shawl fastened in front with an enormous pin. Like Scientist Albert Einstein he scorned socks...