Word: shirtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed principally pleased to get Stanky, who had played for him in Brooklyn. Said the Lip: "Stanky'll drive the pitcher daffy. He'll drop his bat on the catcher's corns. He'll sit on you at second base, sneak a pull at your shirt, step on you, louse you up some way-anything to beat you." Stanky spoke Durocher's language...
...admits, however, that the office was put to a severe test earlier this week. "Someone wanted a student to iron shirts for four or five hours a week, but we couldn't find an experienced shirt-ironer in the entire College. We finally came up with an exceptionally ambitious student who was willing to learn, and at last reports he was doing fine...
...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...Radcliffe girl, wearing a man's shirt and have a problem, either. She said that she was always fighting with her mother because whenever she had a date her mother wanted her to help with the dishes. At the doctor's suggestion, the girl played the mother, and accused her daughter (herself) of many wanted things, among which was "always reading the CRIMSON when I ask you to help...
...talk with Phillips about books, philosophy, in fact about almost anything. The book merchant especially enjoyed popping one of a set of philosophical problems on his visitors and drawing them into lengthy debate. One of his memorable topics was: "Is it better for a man to wear a dirty shirt on his back or to wear no shirt...