Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to be driven around his estate in a private sight-seeing bus with the top down. His favorite cars were two Reo taxicabs with the meters taken out. When those wore out he bought Rolls-Royces, in pairs. To business he frequently wore a bottle green suit, green shirt, green tie, green derby...
Samuel Insull did not press his stocks on opera singers quite so urgently as he did on his shirt-sleeved workers and scrubwomen. But the performers in his $20,000,000 opera house regarded him as a financial wizard who could do no wrong. The News found that the once high-priced Rosa Raisa had lost all that she had, was in straitened circumstances along with such investors as Conductor Giorgio Polacco & wife (Soprano Edith Mason), Conductors Emil Cooper. Egon Pollak. Roberto Moranzoni, Baritone Cesare Formichi, Stage Manager Otto Erhardt...
There was Wilde, in the days after the peacock blue, the velveteens, and the shirt-cuffs turned over his jacket sleeves had been renounced. There was the gathering in the old stable beside Kelmscott House, where Wilde held forth. "I have never answered letters," he said, "I have known men come to London full of bright prospects, and seen them complete wrecks in a few months through a habit of answering letters." And again, "Mr. Bernard Shaw has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." And of course William Morris was there, and sometimes Shaw, and Russian anarchists...
Rufus Boyd Jr.. executive vice president. Last year A. P. I. members decided they wanted a president who would be more than a shirt front. They elected Amos Leonidas Beaty and decided to depart from tradition, pay him a salary (reported at $50,000). Many members were against the salary. Others felt that 62-year-old Mr. Beaty, whose friends call him "Judge," was not giving the A. P. I. its money's worth. When the A. P. I. held its convention in Houston last week Mr. Boyd let it be known that he would resign should...
Football tradition at Lawrenceville School says that if the captain of the team wears a certain red shirt the day before the game with Hill, Lawrenceville cannot possibly lose; but if Lawrenceville does lose, the shirt will remain a potent talisman if immediately washed. Last week at Lawrenceville a debate was still in progress: whether or not to wash the shirt. Captain Fred Janney had put it on before the Hill game; the game had ended in a tie, 7 to 7. That was three weeks ago. Lawrenceville ended its otherwise successful season with a 13 to 6 beating from...