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Word: trouserless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history's. Limited by the necessity of keeping under cover, Mayell's camera watches bombs landing around the nearby Standard Oil boats, sees a fallen Panay seaman being hauled to a hatchway. Alley's lens catches a Japanese plane diving to attack, while squinting gunners, one trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving the ship, peer into the gaping holes in the Panay's armor, sweep over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Word | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Sheriff's Deputy Will Cabler from Brownsville, Tex., arrived to arrest W. H. Westphal on a charge of selling mortgaged property, Mrs. Westphal removed and locked up her husband's trousers. Will Cabler, unembarrassed, rode all the way home to Brownsville, sitting in the train seat behind trouserless W. H. Westphal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

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