Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silk hats shone as they were handed in at the cloak room. Shirt studs twinkled on the spotless expanse of many a broad political bosom. Legislators' ladies beamed right and left under their freshly marcelled hair. Round & round couples cumbrously revolved to music. Many a white-gloved hand was wrung enthusiastically. And the most smiles, the most handshakes, the most congratulations were reserved for one man. It was a fine thing to be a governor and attend your own inaugural ball -ten years...
...schoolteachers. Said the unabashed Kingfish: "Aw, that ain't nothing. That ain't no new power. But the bill provoked a New England-born, hitherto mouse-quiet Representative named Lester to supply the only fireworks of the session. While Huey Long, wearing a pink shirt and a broad grin, lolled on the Speaker's dais, Representative Lester shouted: "I feel outraged and dishonored as a citizen and an official of Louisiana. . . . We, as Legislators, are called upon to take from the people the last vestige of their local political rights . . . and in all of this the House...
...used to own. Four hours later Mrs. Estes answered her telephone. Next day she was up & around the house. The second day she took her new baby motoring. Four days later she began to feed the infant the juice of raw vegetables. Last week, dressed in trousers and zipper shirt, she sat down on an iron lawn chair and posed for a picture with her 72-year-old husband and the ten children she has borne during 15 years of marriage...
...platform in Manhattan one day last week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...
...Kaplan has snapped practically every celebrity to enter Manhattan in the past ten years, has hidden in choir stalls to "get" socialite weddings, fed a hot dog to the late great Albert of Belgium, insulted Cardinals and bossed prize fighters. He seldom shaves and has difficulty in keeping his shirt tails inside his trousers...