Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparently escaped the notice or at least the approval of the writer. It is not at all true that Harvard football stands in danger of overemphasis. What it lacks is any emphasis at all. The position taken by the CRIMSON and by the University in it's stiff-shirt capacity is entirely untenable and corresponds not one whit to the logie of the given situation. The facts, not the theories are what we at Harvard face. We are in the big college class. Consequently we must abide by our good repute and play the other big colleges. Every Harvard...
...behind the establishment being bonhomie and laissez faire. Sinclair Lewis went down from Yale to tend the furnace. Englewood, then as now a tycoons' home ground, took an instant dislike to the Helicon Hallers and their host, who used to go around the town in old corduroys, flannel shirt and sandals. The place burned down one March night in 1907, killing a drunken carpenter. An arson charge was brought against Sinclair, but subsequently dropped. And the New York Press inspired Sinclair's The Brass Check, when it developed the yarn that Helicon Hall had been a "free-love...
...ahead and for a year Vidor hired a girl to do nothing but clip newspapers. Convinced that the common people were as interested in his theme as he was, he produced Our Daily Bread. Of it he says: "Not only is my heart in the picture, but my shirt as well...
...unemployed on Los Angeles streets, chose a dirt farm for his location where for two months he drew blue prints of each day's shooting. Result is a well-paced, high-pitched picture which, though it strikes no alarming political note, should help King Vidor keep his shirt...
...Reno, Mrs. Mildred Tilton Holmsen sat on the curb in front of her hotel, wriggled her bare toes in the gutter, asked newshawks: "There isn't anything wrong with shorts, is there?'' Last month, clad in men's shorts and a shirt, Mrs. Holmsen rode from Manhattan to Reno on the observation platform of her train, got so dirty from soot that ''a dignified gentleman" threatened to have her put off the train as a blackamoor. In Reno, still in shorts but without shoes or stockings, she entered a restaurant bar, was chased...