Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child was already dead. Two more died presently. Their bodies slid down to the lurched rear of the bus. The rest grew hysterical, broke a window. Bryan Untiedt kept them awake, gave them all his clothing but his shirt and overalls...
...Brawermann. 32, retired buttonhole maker, advertised Science & Invention, amused Union Square crowds by squeezing through the model of a keyhole, 6½ in. wide, 12½ in. long. Nimble Mr. Brawermann then tore the strings out of a tennis racquet, climbed through the frame. Next he took off his shirt, lay on a bed of 1,200 spikes, permitted people to walk over him. When he got up his skin was unbroken. Five feet five inches tall, weighing 150 lb., Mr. Brawermann said that he had never been on the stage, had just picked up his tricks by practicing...
...Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover's world-significant career, and robbed him of whatever sentiment had been attached to his name. Losing faith in the Press, he has come to think of himself as a martyr in a hair shirt, misunderstood and misinterpreted by the People...
...have read your article on "Ponzi Payment in TIME, Jan. 5. Found it interesting, but none too accurate. My hair is neither chestnut nor grey. It's gone. Have never worn lavender pajamas nor pink ribbons on my night shirt. Fur coat and overshoes on extremely cold nights have been my limit...
...minority of one. Congressman John E. Nelson of Maine, disagreed with the Red picture of his colleagues, decried the "hysteria" over Communism, declared: ''Our best defense against the red shirt of the Communist and the black shirt of the Fascist is the blue shirt of the American workingman...