Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money from you and even you don't get it all back. All you need to do is look at these big buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue to realize that. We take your shirt and give you a little piece of the shirttail. Then you go back home waving it and shouting 'Look what Uncle Sam gave...
...upright piano and two trunks, he lived the life of a monk. When he did go out for an evening, it was not with Minneapolis' dowagers but with some fiddler or bassoonist from his own orchestra. A devout Greek Orthodox Catholic, he wore a crucifix inside his shirt and a medallion of the Virgin Mary in the lining of his coat, never ventured to conduct without them both. When he was not conducting or studying scores, he could usually be found in the gallery of a Nicollet Avenue cinema theatre...
...electrical firm, he has a wife and three big sons, lives in a simple house on College Street. He bowls Wednesday and Friday nights with the Portage County All Stars and in the Kent-Ravenna City League. When he bowls in important competition he wears a shiny satin bowling shirt with a regimental-striped tie. He has been bowling since 1906, one lucky night hit 256, in regular mid-season form averages...
...serial, Wickford Point. It traces some 30 years in the history of the scatterbrained, snobbish, tumbledown New England Brills, from Great-Aunt Sarah, who had known the Transcendentalists, to sophisticated daughter Bella, beautiful, jaded, unhappy, to whom men were drawn as sightseers were drawn to the shrine of stuffed-shirt Poet John Brill, "the Wickford Sage...
...then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything but my shirt." To enable Mr. Shonts to dress again I. R. T. promptly recompensed him with a $150,000 bonus and doubled his salary...