Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only after six months' digging (in the new subway on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue) did he finally succeed in unearthing it. It covers roughly the first four months of ex-President Wintergreen's administration. In its confidential pages the ex-President makes a clean breast of his official hair shirt...
...second round Kilcullen knocked Feary down once and Feary knocked Kilcullen down twice. In the third round, Feary scored his 33rd knockout in 38 recorded fights. In the semifinal, he scored the 34th when the handler of his opponent. Jack Holland of New Orleans, took off his shirt and threw it into the ring. His opponent in the final, George Schultz of Cleveland, stayed on his feet till the third round when Feary knocked him down for eight seconds and won the decision...
Sirs: . . . The writer, among many thousands, was present on the occasion. According to the advertisement Pickett was to enter the bull ring, wearing a red shirt, with no other person to be in the ring. Instead, prior to his entrance, besides the beautiful reddish-roan, fighting bull, there were some five or six well mounted white cowboys of the Miller outfit, all armed with large calibred revolvers containing blank cartridges, and also carrying lassos. . . . As this was contrary to the announcement, the already existing antagonism of the majority was increased. After an unusually long wait Pickett appeared...
...tall white-haired lady pointedly replied: "The President would have to take the consequences. That's all." This White House visitation prompted Rollin Kirby to produce for the New York World-Telegram a cartoon of the kind that made him famous: Mr. Hoover, hot and worried in his shirt sleeves, at an old fashioned tub scrubbing "Anti-Saloon Linen" while a severe old woman, her arms crossed, stands by to keep him at his job. Title: "Our Man!" ¶The temperature rose to 78° in Washington one day last week. The air-conditioning machine was turned...
...thoughtful a lover he can be to the soft white beauty who builds a nest of newspapers in the desk. Vicious, the little green parrot, loves to lie under the Doctor's coat when he goes to the symphony; warm and still, she chews his tie, his shirt. Only once, frightened at something, did she begin to talk. The man sitting next the Doctor thought he was making that remarkable noise. The Doctor covered Vicious, let the man think...