Word: undershirt
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...only be reached by a wheezing, blunt-nosed government steamer from dusty Mazatlan. Armed with dark glasses and a large cotton sun umbrella, Newsman Maier took this steamer, chugged out to Maria Madre, the largest island. There he found Mother Concepcion, a grave, deep-voiced, slightly masculine woman, knitting undershirts. Breathlessly he told her of the end of Mexico's religious troubles. Mother Concepcion laid down her undershirt, smiled composedly. She was "full of faith in the future...
...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...
...hooks, forcing him out. A visiting band announced that as a tribute to Veteran Frederick Spencer they would play "When You and I Were Young Maggie." Furious, Spencer gained a lap. In the gallery Spectator James Miglio was mauled by a special detective, led off to court in his undershirt and trousers. The band played "Among My Souvenirs." As is usual in six-day races the records of all previous six-day races in lap-stealing, attendance, and the eating of hot dogs (called by bicycle riders "Coney Island chicken") were broken...
...funeral; how John Quincy Adams, a Negro clown, got bathed with boiling tar. Sometimes the bully-boy stops punching to strew around some casual obscenities; sometimes he just reflects, idly, wistfully, comically. At all times his book is as close to life as a stake-driver's undershirt. Admirers of realism, and Americana, must roundly applaud...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, bearded, grotesque, labored in an undershirt. Wrapped in clouds of fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist...