Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government allowance for war wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers, bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and dairy firms; chain stores, crockery companies, cloak and suit houses; the dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery, the laundry, millinery, musical and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers, petticoat cutters, physicians, rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and umbrella manufacturers - all were appraised for definite amounts, all came near to filling their quotas...
Nothing to do with tobacco or candy is on the program of the new organization. It begins by selling hosiery. It will expand to include men's furnishings and women's underwear...
...Coming from Swampscott (cool weather and heavy underwear) to Washington (hot weather and summer gear) the President hurried to consult his throat specialist as a precaution against developing his recurrent "rose fever...
...Negodyaev's is a persecution complex; about monthly he rouses his family in the night, bundles them up, poises for flight, then goes back to bed. Lucy's woe is his lost estates; he finally hangs himself, arrayed in Aunt Teresa's silk underwear, stockings and boudoir cap. Georges' is the stink that Beastly makes shaving; Beastly has a tender skin and has to burn his beard off. Aunt Teresa's is her health and the death of her son Anatole, court-martialed in France...
...reticence, the regretful mists of fading summer, old houses, lanes, bridges, windless leaves enchanting a forest avenue. He paints on a toned canvas with a short stroke, a small brush. Shining spots of canvas show through the paint. Notable is his portrait of a girl in blue mending her underwear out-of-doors in the ripple and shadow of sunlight and uneasy willow branches. Yet for all this iridescent preciosity, there is solidity of grouping, vigorous draughtmanship, broad effects of mass...