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Word: shirts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid $1.50 for this shirt," reflects the GOP's Average Taxpayer. "Sixty-two taxes took 29^ of the price I paid. Sixty-three taxes took $3.53 of this $18 suit. Fifty-three tax collectors took 59? of the $3 I paid for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes & Truth | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Interviewed in Cleveland's Union Terminal wearing a nightgown under his suit, famed old Lawyer Clarence Darrow hastily explained: "Whenever I leave Chicago for a night trip, I always wear one instead of undies and a shirt. Only way to travel on a sleeper. Can't be bothered doing the contortions in a berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...three desks sat Jenkintown's (Pa.) Edward V. Sherry, Chicago's local prodigies Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alchemy of Time | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...uptown pier on the Hudson River. Unmolested by police, the blackamoors shouted, stomped, sang, strummed. By 6 o'clock there were 2,000 of them. Then up rolled a big, blue Rolls-Royce out of which popped a little brown man clad in grey suit, panama hat, white shirt and honey-colored tie in which gleamed a $5 gold piece. "Here comes the Body!" bellowed followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine. The little man boarded one of two excursion boats moored at the pier. "We got the Body!" shouted Negroes hanging over her rails. Then Father Divine boarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divine Week | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...villagers understand.* At Sibenik the King and Mrs. Simpson picked out three dolls, total cost of which was only 15 dinars. His Majesty paid with a 20 dinar bill (50?) and Mrs. Simpson said in German, "Keep the change." The King also bought a Yugoslavian fisherman's coarse shirt, put it on and at night went fishing with a lantern for zubach, a species of carp. Around him hovered more than 100 small craft, some of whose occupants were Yugoslavian detectives trying to look like fishermen. Under these trying circumstances, His Majesty did wonders in catching two zubach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Balls & Balls & Balls | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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