Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week triumphant Communist Maslowski addressed the Reichstag in a brilliant blue sport shirt, is rumored to have a screeching red shirt in reserve...
Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy, usually in a brown sweater, white trousers, a canvas hat, a blue shirt with a red necktie, made Yankee look smart beating Enterprise the first day. Yankee carried a single big jib and jib topsail in place of her usual double head rig. Her weakness with this rig was that she sagged off badly to leeward. Whirlwind's trouble was an addiction to bad starts. On the second day, racing Yankee, Skipper Paul Hammond on Whirlwind left the straight course and veered toward shore looking for a wind, found one, beat Secretary Adams...
...Paramount put him on contract, recently made him a star. At parties he does imitations of Maurice Chevalier and Al Jolson. He is parsimonious, reads hardly anything, drives a Ford, is afraid of cross-eyed people and hearses. In Hollywood he walks around in corduroy pants, a sweat shirt, house slippers...
...score of famed U. S. writers, "Who is Bob Davis?" and you will hear: "He published my first story"; "He kept me from starving"; "He gave me my only encouragement." Not authors alone, but many a prizefighter, statesman, explorer, doctor, will avow: "If Bob Davis wants my shirt, it's his." For of Robert Hobart Davis, editorial writer of the New York Sun, onetime associate editor of Munsey's, it is scant exaggeration to say he has "been everywhere, knows everybody." His column in the Sun headed "Bob Davis Recalls:" is an inexhaustible diary of encounters with...
...Woodbury, N. J., Charles Riley, 32, jobless, killed his bride for going to work in a shirt factory...