Word: tieless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Ickes announced that Briggs had vanished. Ickes, who had recently broken his collarbone, appeared before the grand jury, tieless, open-collared, his right arm in a sling. He talked for almost an hour. He had just come from a 50-minute talk with the President. The Department of Justice announced tersely that Briggs was still available to them...
...months ago in the South Pacific, husky, khaki-clad Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen, 36, tieless and open-collared as flag secretary to informal Admiral "Bill" Halsey, said...
England's well-groomed Board of Trade President Hugh Dalton, who had sworn not to buy a new suit for the duration, urged his fellow Britons to go collarless, tieless, sockless through the summer, said he himself would not hesitate to attend the House of Commons with a naked neck. "Men are a great problem" he decided. "They are too conservative...
...authors describe a curious domestic scene in the White House on Dec. 7. The President was sitting tieless and in shirt sleeves, munching an apple and chatting with "Buzz" (his nickname for Harry Hopkins). Buzz, in V-necked sweater and slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden...
...first word of Pearl Harbor reached Washington at 1:45 p.m., Dec. 7. Navy Secretary Knox, the color gone from his ruddy features, called Franklin Roosevelt, who sat at lunch in the White House Oval Study, eating from a desk tray, tieless, shirt-sleeved. Said Knox: "Mr. President, it looks like the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor...