Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There is a spirit of unrest in the air, and one feels the breath of Eros blowing in from the garden." Later she delivers a homily on the piquancy of Victorian underwear. She also says: "I often sit and wonder what one could do nowadays to be declasse...
...level best to sell Cheese. The heartbreaks and disappointments all came back and were just as real as if they were just happening. Over again I ate my ten cent breakfast of coffee and rolls, and quietly slipped one into my pocket for lunch. I remembered the summer underwear and low shoes that I wore during that cold winter of 1907 ... the past when the Kraft Company was small and everybody called everybody else by his first name-even the stenographers...
Lingerie 4 oz. Underwear...
...Manhattan last week, Mrs. Ruth Greenberg was found in a coma. Nurses, undressing her at a hospital, removed three dresses, four suits of flannel underwear, 15 pairs of thick stockings...
...statesmanlike exposure from which no ill came: Herbert Clark Hoover, hatless in a drizzle which penetrated to his underwear, taking oath of office in front of the U. S. Capitol...