Word: undershirts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There in the clubhouse he sat, in his undershirt, a snaggle-toothed grin giving him the look of a Saint Bernard that had broken into its own brandy barrel. "It feels good," murmured Manager Walter ("Smokey") Alston of the Los Angeles Dodgers. "It always feels good...
...days later the Crimson received a psychological boost from Yale captain Bill Petty. Showing up for pictures wearing the Harvard shirt he won last year as an undershirt, Petty only inspired the Harvard rowers instead of discouraging them...
...epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human. This image and my fear entered into a species of combination with each other. That shape...
Apart from its familiar name, the firm offered little. Sales of union suits had faded with the rise of central heating, and Clark Gable singlehanded ruined the undershirt by wearing none in a memorable motel scene with Claudette Colbert in 1934's Oscar-winning It Happened One Night. The King's male subjects ripped off their own undershirts; sales plunged 40%. B.V.D. gamely tried to stretch into sports shirts, sweatshirts and socks, gradually boggled in a complexity of products and styles that became more complicated to order and stock than to sell...
...barrel, and in It Happened One Night (1934) he shared a tourist cabin with Claudette Colbert, their beds divided by a blanket stretched on a rope. In the same picture, when he took off his shirt and revealed nothing but a glossy chest, he touched off a crisis among undershirt manufacturers...