Word: trunksful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy, by far the cheapest for travel (a good meal costs only a dollar), was also anxious to please. Though the prim government forbade Italians to wear two-piece bathing suits or abbreviated trunks on the public beaches, Americans were free to wear what they wanted at such international resorts...
After breakfast he usually slipped into his swimming trunks for a few hours of splashing in the Atlantic, and a session in the hot Florida sun. In the afternoons, he napped, thumbed through state papers, or got worried word from Administration leaders in Washington. In the evenings he usually took...
Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mamas") Tucker admitted to being a landmark. To the New York Public Library she presented all the personal theatrical scrapbooks of her 43 years of trouping (more than 200 of them, in three trunks and a wicker hamper). They would be filed in the...
Next morning, in a slatch in the storm, surf watchers on the tip of Cape Cod saw the Portland, among the snarled and yelping seas, just off the treacherous Peaked Hill Bar. The storm closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful...
Mornings, the President lay abed until 7:30 a.m.-far beyond his usual rising hour. With Adviser Clark Clifford, Vice President-elect Alben Barkley, and Senate Secretary-to-be Les Biffle, he walked daily over to the secluded enlisted men's beach. There he donned a pair of trunks...