Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some people prefer union suits because no shirt crawls up the back in warm weather. Others prefer two-piece suits because these do not bind at the crotch. Both types were good customers for knit underwear makers who, in 1925, sold 11.500,387 dozen union suits, 11,261,521 dozen shirts and drawers. Total value was $163,276,772. Pennsylvania has 114 of the 298 factories...
...writers recently fastened upon him. He puns along stoutly, just to show what he cares for humor. " 'If you do,' " he remembers a laundress retorting to one of his advances, " 'I will be hot under the collar.'" And he unblushingly sets down his comeback: "'Underwear...
Robert Reis-makes underwear, and advertises them-loss...
...News, and abetted by an accommodating judge, proceeded with an exploitation to which previous obscenities-the Arbuckle, Rhinelander, Hall-Mills and Chaplin cases-seemed a prelude almost refined. Pressing its usual policy, the Graphic had a paunchy man in pajamas and a plump girl in a film of silk underwear re-enact for Graphic cameras the more revolting moments described by Mrs. Browning. Faces of the real characters, their grievances exaggerated by retouchings, were then pasted in these photographs and the Graphic's front pages were spread with the admittedly faked results, To ridicule Mr. Browning and stimulate convulsions...
...that he's spoiled. Ever since that time when he refused his secretary a lily cup out of pure economy he's been no true son of Vermont, for we're not like that (cheers), honestly we're not. The mayor of my town has two suits of winter underwear--one for summer...