Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much that was psychological in the Auburn triumph. The U. S. was on the downside of Depression yet here was an automobile at $945, low with racy lines. It looked rich, would do 80 m. p. h. It answered the need of many a man who had lost his shirt but hoped his friends did not know it. It made many another man who never had it to lose, feel like a million dollars...
...troupe, he sustains the whole show for the Boston audience. The troupe has been further augmented by Young Love, male and female. And when Young Love lapses into trite interludes that have had cousins, not to say twin sisters, in every theatrical season, Old Jess saunters on in his shirt-sleeves to put his own salt into the show...
Focus of the Senators' interest was the Bull Market and the 1929 Crash, with particular reference to parts played therein by banks and the Reserve. Most of the Committee's findings were ancient history to the investor who had lost his shirt. But bankers throughout the land perused the report carefully because they knew it would serve as a working text for bank legislation yet to be framed by the Committee. Buried under piles of financial statistics were these general conclusions...
...Angeles, Calif., the faculty of Bancroft Junior High School outlawed, under penalty of expulsion, a popular student game called rip-the-zipper, in which any student spying a shirt, trouser or skirt fastened with a zipper would cry: "Rip the zipper!'' and zip the garment open...
Copilot, radioman, steward and passengers plastered their noses against windows while Pilot Ormsbee banked lower & lower around an animated speck on the surface -a lifeboat. Someone in it was waving an oar with a shirt tied to the blade. . . . There seemed to be ten persons in the boat. . . . One of them looked something like a woman. . . . And over there, taking a terrific beating from the waves, was another man hanging to a broken hatch door...