Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Month ago, when McGrady sat on the platform to dress up a meeting of the Good Neighbor League at which Madam Perkins spoke, General Johnson columnized: "He is a man. He belongs among men and not as a starched and sweating Exhibit X in a boiled shirt in any Stanley High Ladies' night...
...changes from a lazy reporter into an over serious city editor. They paint up the office, hire an impertinent copy boy and import a German band. Grant becomes very angry, and fires Bennett, who is the leading tease. She goes to New York and becomes engaged to the stuffed-shirt author of a book on How to be a Success...
Tomorrow to the Navy game and to the Kirkland House party afterwards. Puzzled all week over whether to wear soft or dress shirt and now the dilemma is settled because he hasn't enough money to pay for laundering any of his three dirty shirts. Two bits will go a long ways to buy one cocktail before dinner. And a cocktail inside a soft shirt is better than a dress shirt outside of nothing...
...shipments to Spain. "I wouldn't believe Eden on a stack of Bibles!" bawled Communist William Gallacher, M. P., and then savagely attacked Adolf Hitler's new Ambassador to Britain, onetime Champagne Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, who last week arrived at his post in a Nazi brown shirt. "He comes with his hands red with murder!" shrieked Red William. "I demand that this man, who is not an Ambassador but an agent for War, be driven out of this country...
...floor on ice-cold feet to his open window and bangs it shut. a front clings to his whiskers as he hacks at them desperately with an ice-cold razor. A nick under his chin bleeds and makes a smear on the collar of his newly-laundered best pink shirt. But the dauntless Vagabond is out of his Attic by eight-thirty and down to the Dining Room to breakfast...