Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after rich Jew, staying behind to protect their German properties as best they might, occurred a paradoxical but sound idea. Why not contribute to the "Brown Shirt" party fund? Then, in case fiery Herr Hitler should try another coup d'état (like that which he and General von Ludendorü failed to carry through in 1923) surely Jewish contributors would not find Fascist "thunder squads" crashing in their doors. Last week swaggering Hitlerites boasted scornfully of having been offered such "Jew-cash," would not admit to taking...
...make and keep a decent home. Before she died of cancer she saw many a sad change come over her beloved family: her eldest son married to a wife whose family looked down on the Zlotniks, Anshel no longer cantillating the Book of Esther, but slaving in a shirt factory, her daughter Dvoyrele living in sin with an impoverished sculptor. But Death saved her from seeing the culmination of her daughter's tragedy...
...very hard to get around Mr. Babbitt. It is impossible to annoy him. The best plan is to keep your shirt on, remembering his own counsel to moderation. There is much to learn from simply watching the workings of a mind which is facing without fear the best critical antagonism in the world today...
...white shirt and linen knickers unsoiled. Capt. Hawks stood grinning in the cockpit, gnawed a sandwich, gulped coffee and water before responding to the welcoming committee. He disclaimed all concern in breaking the old record of 14 hr. 45 min., set by the Lindberghs on Easter Sunday. Said he: "I am not interested in records. It was purely a business demonstration of the possibilities of an aerial pony express. With relays of pilots and fast planes at intermediate points ... I think a schedule of 13 to 15 hrs. could be maintained. . . . The nonstop flight is of no value. Why load...
...opponents are going to let the United States write Canada's tariff act!" he has exclaimed with effective horror upon numerous platforms. He has asked, "Shall this be?" Waving the maple-leaf-embroidered shirt of Canadian patriotism, he has suggested that Mr. King is in effect almost a traitor to the Dominion...