Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand Admiral complained bitterly when told that he could take only one piece of luggage. He had packed twelve. Later he was found to have worn six suits of silk underwear...
...copper-domed Tokyo castle, breakfasted in foreign style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality set an example to all. He had his underwear thriftily mended, cut imported cigarets and wine from the palace list...
...used a publicity man's appeal to get results. Many a glamor girl got in a WAC recruiting line just for the gag. The WAVES hewed to a line that was dignified and stern. On one occasion a Brooklyn reporter heckled Miss Mac for a story on WAVE underwear. What was going to be regulation lingerie? Miss Mac set her teeth; the Navy did not care what the WAVES wore under their uniform. The reporter finally gave up. There was no story on WAVE underwear...
...home. It was full of beaded curtains, canaries, chairs with claw feet and red leather seats, gaslights, knickknacks, onyx clocks and vases filled with cattails. From an upstairs window Marvin could look down upon flower gardens and a spider's web of clotheslines forever hung with grey underwear. His father, who then had charge of the hardware section of Bohan's department store, was a Republican with firm convictions about religion: "Live and let live is my motto. A man can be a better Christian than most and not go near a church...
...heavily on Detroiters as purchasers of jewelry, furs, woolen clothing and blankets, imported china. Windsor housewives wailed that Americans were not only greedy but "pushy." But customs men claimed that more & more Canadian women go into the U.S. for such goods as infants' wear, towels, women's underwear (all scarce in Canada), that they frequently evade Canadian customs rules by wearing their purchases home...