Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English Press in the most insanely expensive circulation war that circulation-war-torn isle had ever seen (TIME, Sept. 25, 1933). All the popular London newspapers pitched into the furious scramble for readers, bribing them with every premium imaginable from sets of Dickens, through washing machines to suits of underwear. The war's hottest year - 1933 - cost all combatants ?2,500,000, nearly double their combined earnings...
...efficient young questioner astutely revealed alarming gaps in the victim's knowledge. The poor candidate simply could not remember whether or not such and such a sixteenth-century writer had a full beard, what he ate for breakfast on a certain morning, whether or not his wife washed his underwear, or, for that matter, whether or not he were underwear...
...hovering in the van as a dark horse. It's all very simple. Anyone who wishes to become a member of the Princeton Crew should communicate with the proper authorities. Do not be discouraged. Origin, prep school, former experience, are of no more importance than the size of your underwear...
...hovering in the van as a dark horse. It's all very simple. Anyone who wishes to become a member of the Princeton Crew should communicate with the proper authorities. Do not be discouraged. Origin, prep school, former experience, are of no more importance than the size of your underwear...
Nearly the entire civic administration of Mt. Vernon, representatives of every church and the Bible Society, showed up for the preview performance. After watching the cast bridle through its paces, the women in baggy underwear and aprons, the men in shorts and collars, the audience voted the nudist lark "depressingly modest...