Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale of thrills. The lofty, chiselled beauty of Madeleinie Carrol is a bit surpassed by the whirlwind nature of the plot, but the masculinity of Gary Cooper is brought to the fore, from the scene where he takes off his shirt, to that where he swims the murky river with a load of lead buried in his back...
...political fraternal body, the G. A. R. was in process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading hatred of the Rebels, "waving the bloody shirt" from every political stump as it packed Congress with its members, dictated pension legislation almost at will. It had already helped put fellow-members Grant, Hayes and Garfield into the White House, was still to put General Harrison and Major McKinley there...
...ball stealing. While some minor disturbance such as boundary flag removal serves as distraction in a corner of the field, an unnoticed performer, armed with a pin, approaches a ball which a player has momentarily left unguarded, pierces a seam, shoves the deflating pellet under his shirt, and at a warning signal everyone stampedes for the fence...
...combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which he manipulated himself back into control of General Motors in 1916. Fatally entranced by the stockmarket, William Durant lost his General Motors shirt ($120,000,000) in 1920. The Durant car, with which he planned to recoup his fortunes in 1921, is no longer made. When Asbury Park, N. J. newshawks discovered unsinkable, 74-year-old Mr. Durant merrily washing dishes in a lunchroom last week they baked up a fine riches...
...cows had the fright of their lives as a trim blue & silver monoplane suddenly dropped down out of the mist to a bumpy landing beside them. As the cows' owner ran up, out o? the plane stepped a black-jowled, slick-&-kinky-haired man wearing a very dark shirt, a very light necktie. In a voice which sounded as if he had a hot potato in his mouth he demanded: "Is this Scotland...