Word: shirttails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helping Hands. In Atlanta, unable to tuck in his shirttail because his arm was in a cast, Ralph Adams asked a boy to help him, later discovered that his wallet with $13 was missing. In Denver, Bus Driver Otis C. Trueblood left his bus to help a blind passenger across the street, returned to find that three other passengers had left with his change container...
Tony conceded that his year at Kent School had loosened him up. Said he: "The spirit at Kent is terrific. I learned to take my shirttail out of my trousers, so to speak, and let it dangle." He had even learned to call his teachers Jack, Chuck and Bill-something that would have been considered scandalous at Radley College, his English school...
Even Texas' Tom Connally, the party's foreign policy leader, took up the cry: "A lynching of the Constitution. We will not take it lying down . . . simply to catch a shirttail full of votes." The rebellion hit the Democratic National Committee; Georgian George B. Hamilton, its finance director, resigned...
Poky as ever, Bob Feller ambled out to the pitching mound, tugged up his pants in the old way, fired a fastball which was perhaps better than it used to be. After three pitches, his shirttail came out, just like old times...
...TIME, the only reason nearly 700,000 Illinois Republicans voted for Senator Brooks is because they prefer an honest, straightforward American to a shirttail-riding, "where-he-leads-I'll-follow," rubber-stamp type of candidate. After all Illinois has an open primary...