Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city payroll with 555 voters -brought Quin an indictment (later quashed). Mayor Quin replied by branding Maury Maverick a Communist, a C. I. 0.-lover, an irresponsible rabble rouser. A third candidate, 29-year-old Leroy Jeffers, entered the race shouting that beneath Maury Maverick's white shirt was a Red undershirt. That let Maury go into his War dance about his Argonne shell wound, crying, "That undershirt was red [with Maverick blood] so that little boys like Leroy Jeffers could be protected...
Recovering from his labors with coffee & aspirin, Maury Maverick croaked: "I'm going to be a stuffed shirt. I got beat for Congress for not being...
Pound expressed his ideas in Professor Theodore Spencer's house, with whom he stayed while in Cambridge. He is a tall, stocky man with nervous mannerisms and a beard which time has changed from red to an indefinite color. He were a blue sult, a wide-collared shirt with a loosely knotted tie and punctuated his remarks by throwing him self forward in his chair when he wanted to make a point. Once he Jumped onto the arm of his chair to illustrate that America was on the economic precipice and the ways in which a fall could be avoided...
...Warner Bros.). When Juárez (pronounced "Hwa'-race") had its world premiere in Manhattan's Hollywood Theatre last week, C. I. O.'s John Llewellyn Lewis showed up in a starched shirt. Before the picture started, everyone stood for The Star-Spangled Banner.* Both tributes were fitting, for Juárez is the most political and patriotic canto in the whole Warner cycle of epic biography. Produced at a cost of $2,000,000, over a period of two years, with the services of six Academy Award winners and a cast...
...book. The Gun, an adventure story of the Peninsular War, and The African Queen, a story of a virgin and a Cockney on an African river, won him critical success among adventure connoisseurs, but sold only moderately. His best book, The General, a subtle attack on stuffed-shirt generals, sold 1,935 copies in the U. S. By Teutonic mistake, Author Forester's fame is particularly bright in Germany, where The General is still widely regarded as a serious salute to military might...