Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus a pair of skis came to be associated with the popular idea of the "Dartmouth type" who was supposed to be traditionally dressed in corduroy trousers and a dirty sweat-shirt. But until recently those skis were more or less of a myth. Strange as it may seem to those brought up on the Dartmouth outdoor tradition, hundreds of men graduated from the college without knowing a telemark from a gelandesprung. Skiing was left to a comparatively small group of outdoor enthusiasts of the dyed-in-the-wool sort...
...treatment. An example is the story of the rise & fall of starched collars as reflected in the glorious reign and ignominious fate of the Arrow Collar Man -"a national idol who never lived." A chart showing the tumble of starched collar sales from 1919 (the advent of the soft shirt) is surrounded by colored reproductions of Artist Joseph Christian Leyen-decker's unbelievably handsome creation at critical stages of his career from the "merry Oldsmobiling" days of 1907 to the present. Captions tell the story...
...personal interview with the Leader of the Opposition. All the years that the Austrian-born opportunist Adolf Hitler has been gaining political power in Germany, President von Hindenburg had never even seen him. Last week Hitler was summoned to the Presidential Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. Tactfully changing his brown shirt for a long dark overcoat and a derby hat. Fascist Adolf arrived, his smudge of a mustache twitching like a rabbit's nose with excitement. For once untroubled by the police. Hitlerites gathered in the street, shouting "Heil! Heil! Germany Awake!" as their leader appeared. No sooner had Herr Hitler...
National Opposition. With the Reichstag about to convene this week, Fascist Hitler, fresh from his conference with President von Hindenburg. set out by motor for a monster Brown Shirt rally at Bad Harzburg. With him in his thundering Mercedes-Benz bounced Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "Hearst of Germany.'' "the little man in blue" who leads a right faction of 41 Reichstag Deputies. Herr Hitler leads 107. Also represented at Bad Harzburg, where Hitler drums rumbled and Hitler songs rang through the leafy forest, was the Peasant's League of 19 Deputies. After Divine guidance had been invoked by a Lutheran pastor...
President Alcala Zamora bounced from his bench, shirt cuffs waving, sparse hair flying...