Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture entitled "The New Deal Administration Welcomes Constructive Criticism," and below, "X marks the spot where the last critic tried it." The X was in a shell hole, around which lay a head, a body, a severed hand, two severed legs and, on a shattered tree, a fragment of shirt labelled "Gen. Hagood...
...trouser leg, revealing a Munrospun Sock, and said: "I have been wearing socks like these for four years. They are the most remarkable socks you can get. . . . These really are jolly good! British buyers should try out new things. I always do myself." John Dickinson & Co., makers of paper shirt fronts for waiters known as "Dickinson's Dickeys," were favored with a jest by Edward VIII: "Splendid! But will they wash...
...Morley & Co., with their "Morley Dishrag Shirt," were assisted by the Sovereign Salesman with the comment: "Interesting! Excellent for the South of France...
...just show me any body that is entirely perfect and I will show you, an Angel floating in the stratusphere, with a golden harp, and a pair of silver wings and an old fashioned night shirt. JOHN V. CAFFREY Denver, Colo...
...fellows. He accompanies his father on a cruise because he thinks he should and actually enjoys himself somewhat, but refuses to spend additional time with his father in the Mediterranean because it is his duty to return to America to college. But Oliver is no mere prig, no stuffed-shirt; it is his heart as well as his mind which calls him to duty, and it is by virtue of this extremely vivid impression of his character that Santayana shows his real insight. It would have been easy to draw a caricature of Oliver--not one novelist in a thousand...