Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear from tourists who stopped at one of the Americanized hotels in Mexico City and went right on buying their favorite home brands of tooth paste, radios, underwear, shoes and automobile gadgets, that a peso is just 280. But the Mexican worker doesn't live like a tourist and he wouldn't want...
...power of his glittering eye, the awful compulsion of his tale, Author Cain's high-powered shocker will keep many a reader spellbound. The Postman Always Rings Twice, though it gives the impression of a stark naked love-&-murder story, is actually narrative stripped to its underwear. Author Cain's hero is as hard as any cinema villain but he obeys cinema rules, goes sappy...
Shawnee, Oklahoma City and Federal police caught the "Terror" in his underwear, preparing to retire with his bride. An officer stuck his head in the window and called: "Stick 'em up, Wilbur!" At that Wilbur grabbed a gun, fired through the window. The police returned with the opening rounds of a 140-shot fusillade. Mrs. Underbill got no more than a bad scare, but a beauty parlor operator in the next room was hit in the stomach, later died. Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck...
...next, Miss Lee took the initiative. "You can tell the people," she said, "that I like burlesque work a lot, that I have six dogs, two cats, and a parrot, but that my monkey died. Oh, and you might like to know that I never wear underwear in the winter. My natural body heat keeps me warm all season long...
Football players receive the largest amount of equipment in the fall. Over 500 uniforms, including pants jerseys, pads, and stockings, are given out at the start of the season, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and game days, when sweat clothes are changed, an equal number of suits of underwear are issued to the players. Added to this are 600 pairs of shoes: 275 helmets, which are collected after each practice or game: 200 hoods, on practice days, and from 40 to 50 on game days: 125 blankets, also collected each day: and, during the season, 25 gross of shoe laces...