Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Piazza doesn't think we're made of the right stuff over here he better put on his black shirt, pick up his guitar and go back to Venice and paddle his gondola...
...startlingly modern piece of church art was unveiled in old Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod. Engrossed mainly with fish and summer visitors, Chatham is respectable and religious. Most people might suppose that it would have no truck with a picture of Jesus Christ, beardless, garbed in corduroys and grey shirt without even a necktie, preaching from a dory manned by two Cape Codders. Such a supposition would be in error. Deeply, reverently pleased were the Chathamites who gathered last week in Old Congregational Church, founded in 1696 by one Jonathan Vickery, fisherman. They were not the least shocked...
...vicinity of the Capitol, shoved out their occupants, left smoking ruins behind. By 9 p. m. the troopers had advanced to the Anacostia bridge, beyond which on the mudflats lay Bonus City, the B. E. F.'s main encampment. The camp commander rushed out waving a white shirt for a truce, asked for time to evacuate the several hundred women and children. He got an hour's grace...
Through this frolicking crowd of plain people in shirt sleeves moved a tall lanky figure extending a friendly welcome to all. His smooth white hand shook many a hard and horny fist. Outwardly he was with this throng but plainly not of it. His blue coat and grey trousers were wrinkled but he wore a necktie. His hair, above a high intellectual forehead, was a silky grey but his pale blue eyes were young, fresh, benign. His manner with the masses was one of studied informality. Yet he was their particular idol, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for the Presidency...
...Kill me! Kill me!" screamed the Russian, tearing his collar from his neck and wrenching his shirt open. "Kill me as you killed my country! ... I am committing suicide. I am glad to leave this earth...