Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mickey also became something of a leading citizen. He took up gracious living. He acquired an ample wardrobe, changed clothes several times a day, washed his hands several times an hour. The opening of his Sunset Strip haberdashery (pastel shirts and hand-painted ties featured) was graced by George
...last week, Mickey visited his haberdashery on Sunset Strip, handled a piddling $7,500 in bets, and wound up at Sherry's, a nearby gin mill patronized by racketeers, movie stars, detectives and high-priced prostitutes. Mickey settled as always in Booth 12, which commands a view of all exits and entrances. One of his boys picked up a movie doll named "Dee" David, and brought her over. Just before 4 a.m. Mickey got ready to leave...
...critics, who have scoffed at the first nine Lanny books for their cardboard characterizations and their comic-strip simplifications of history, will hardly think better of No. 10. Such objections will continue to leave Upton Sinclair unmoved, since he has magnificently succeeded in what, after all, he set out to do: to write Upton Sinclair's version of history and get millions of people to read it. (Lanny, incidentally, his faith in the future undimmed, decides to devote himself henceforth to humanitarian journalism...
...buffs, known as "hop-ups," strip the bodies from junkyard cars, replace them with low-slung, homemade roadster bodies. On the engine they install a high-compression cylinder head, a dual manifold and a special camshaft. After months of work and $800 to $1,200 spent for parts, they have a racer that will turn up 140 h.p., capable of speeds over 100 miles per hour. They have been clocked at better than 140 m.p.h. at the Southern California Timing Association's Muroc Dry Lake track, a center of U.S. "hot-rod" racing...
...induce these terrified infants to strip and climb the dark, evil-smelling flues," writes Author Phillips, masters used "beatings with rods and ropes, straw lighted beneath them, pins stuck in their legs . . . kicks on their bottoms." The rough flues rubbed great open sores on elbows and knees, which masters hardened with saltpeter; after about six months, they stopped hurting...