Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters at press conference next day found that the President had gone from hot-weather shirt sleeves into a grey suitcoat, seemingly new. Not new, said he: the suit was at least a year old. Whereupon he peeked at a label, amazedly announced that the suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...
...bounced on him, thumbed Lou's badly cut right eye and heeled it with his glove lacing, swung so hard with his murderous left that his pants almost fell off. Finally, late in the 14th, with quartfuls of blood on the canvas, on the referee's shirt, all over Tony & Lou, Referee George Blake stopped it, with Galento leading by all the tricks abjured by the Marquis of Queensberry rulebook. Nova, downed five times, was blinded by blood, rubber-legged, licked...
...Sometimes they implied a misplaced sadism, like Louis Ribak's Leading Citizens, in which a chunky citizen in shirt sleeves bullwhips a nude man lashed to a tree trunk...
Last week ancient Eddie Moore, still on Kennedy's personal pay roll, was too busy with his boss even to play golf on Sunday. Kennedy sat in shirt sleeves at his desk, grabbing by turns at the three phones at his left, talking to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, to Lord Halifax, to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Franklin Roosevelt. As he always does, Kennedy worked with windows thrown wide, coat tossed on a rack, vest draped over a chair, the sleeves of his hard-collared shirt rolled over his freckled forearms, tugging his black suspenders, cussing, grumbling incoherently...
...five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special counsel to First National Pictures, for twelve weeks reorganizer of RCA, for 74 days special adviser to Paramount Pictures. Wherever he was, he was also Joe Kennedy, the Wall Street speculator, who once said: "Anyone can lose his shirt in Wall Street if he has sufficient capital and inside information...