Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catherine Prehm ("Mother") Terry, 71, onetime woman compositor on the New York Journal, where she spilled hot type metal on William Randolph Hearst's dress shirt one night, now publishes the Klamath Free Press (circ. 1,050) in Bonanza, Ore., is currently campaigning to wipe out card gambling in tolerant Bonanza...
Jack Robinson, crusty old publisher of the Jewett, Tex., Messenger, whose handset masthead reads: "We Guarantee to Interest, if Not to Please You." When the "shorts" (hard times) come to Leon County, Editor Robinson takes off his shirt, deserts his type cases and rusticates along the river-bottoms. Returning from such" a vacation last year he scared the day lights out of most of Jewett with accounts of a mythical half-beast, half-man he had encountered. Sample Robinson "Town Note": "Some more mules and wagons in Jewett Saturday afternoon and not many cars, a little money floating around among...
Nobody has ever considered Abe Lincoln a stuffed shirt, but just to make sure, recent biographers have stripped him down to his gaunt ribs. With The Hidden Lincoln, published last year on Lincoln's birthday, Emanuel Hertz identified himself as one of Lincoln's most active denuders. This year, again as a birthday present, Hertz has the grace to throw around Lincoln's bony shoulders a vast mantle of myth. It fits no better than Lincoln's baggy suits did, but as Editor Hertz knows, no editorial tailor will ever be able to fit formal clothes...
...year-old mistress-though he was grateful enough that the ogling coal dealer neglected to leave a bill. To keep her at home he did the marketing himself, dressed in the cap, espadrilles and blue jeans of a workman, plus a famous white-polka-dotted red shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet, Max Jacob, helped Picasso, who steadfastly refused to do any "commercial" work. A terrific and efficient worker, to avoid interruptions Picasso soon took to painting all night, a habit which may have had something to do with the blueness of the Blue Period...
...vast moment, deeply anxious about the fate of the greatest army of the world, with his own fame & future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie & good fellowship that he gets out of bed & perambulates the house in his shirt to find us that we may share with him the fun of one of poor Hood's queer little conceits...