Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court that it should be declared bankrupt. Among its creditors a local printer claimed $2,695, an editor claimed $130 pay, a firm in Washington $111. This routine little failure was a blow to no great publisher, but it was a blow to a big man in the shirt business...
Artist Paul Cadmus, wearing a green shirt, was found by newshawks cooking breakfast in his Greenwich Village apartment. Said he: "I got about $250 for that picture. . . . These admirals and secretaries probably never were sailors themselves. . . . What do they think sailors do on shore leave? They go to Riverside Drive. The ones who are out for innocent pleasure go rowboat riding in Central Park. ... A sailor's life is not a glamorous...
...Combatant Johnny Plummer became enraged at a ruling by referee Jack Dempsey, hit him. Referee Dempsey knocked out Combatant Plummer with three quick uppercuts to the chin. Up from a ringside seat scrambled 95-lb. Mrs. Johnny Plummer. She screech-scratched Referee Dempsey into a corner, tore his shirt, pulled his hair, drove him out of the ring...
...staff of 13. The accident to Maranville left Boston with a weak infield. Brooklyn and Cincinnati looked much as they did at the start of the season a year ago. Brooklyn had a new manager, Casey Stengel, who watched practice at Orlando in a cream and crimson striped shirt. Cincinnati had a new owner, Radio Manufacturer Powel Crosley Jr. (TIME...
...bravos. It was his 67th birthday and he had let the day be advertised for the sake of the Philharmonic-Symphony's campaign for money. But at speechmaking he drew the line. "I talk with my baton," he told the campaigners. In intermission while he was changing his shirt, rubbing his face with cologne, one of the Philharmonic directors said his birthday message for him: "I am a conductor and outside of the province of my own work I am conscious of the lack of power to give expression to my feelings, either to a visible or a radio...