Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headache of this capable staff is to find reserves for the team. Harlow started the year with only a 14-man "red shirt" Varsity squad, of which nine are Seniors. He has announced the intention of building up these "red-shirts" to 30 by the Brown game, but the promotions have been slow, in keeping with the greenness of the reserve material...
...same night last week that unreconstructed (and unPurged) Senator Cotton Ed Smith, in a flaming red shirt, cried "Lest we forget!" to the midnight sky of South Carolina (see p. 26), a cadaverous man with a crusading light in his eye ad dressed a banquet hall full of women Democrats in Boston's Statler Hotel. He was Harry Hopkins explaining, on the night of the Roosevelt Purge's worst de feat so far, the high motives of that his toric political operation, and its moral justification...
...Portland, Ore.) and the expensive Mayflower Hotel unbent to make the event a social success. Rates were cut to $2.17 per night and 1,560 of its rooms were occupied. Its parlors and lobbies were filled not only with those who dressed like President Combs but with carriers in shirt sleeves, without neckties. The bars did little business, conversation was quiet, and the Washington Herald said admiringly of the crowd: "It was interested and curious, but unawed...
Before two members of the Dies House Committee investigating Un-American Activities who went to investigate in Manhattan last week, appeared a small, excitable Italian in grey shirt and black string tie. Girolamo Valenti's mission is to keep Benito Mussolini out of the U. S. He is chairman of the Italian Anti-Fascist Committee, was editor of La Stampa Libra, now defunct. Mr. Valenti told the investigators a startling story about how Mussolini is roping in U. S. school children...
Nudism, as an organized movement, started in Germany in the early 20s, went ahead by serious leaps and dignified bounds until 1933, when the German body put on a brown shirt. From Germany the cult spread to France, England and the U. S., where it was popularly regarded as high-class burlesque. By 1934, however, there were 300,000 serious-minded nudists in the U. S., and the movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral...