Word: shirttails
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...TIME, the only reason nearly 700,000 Illinois Republicans voted for Senator Brooks is because they prefer an honest, straightforward American to a shirttail-riding, "where-he-leads-I'll-follow," rubber-stamp type of candidate. After all Illinois has an open primary...
...question-one that is always gingerly juggled on the floor of the House of Commons-came up in debate on a new conscription bill, extending the military age from 41 to 51, from 19 to 18 ½. Led by fiery Jack Griffiths, Labor dissidents sought to pin a shirttail to the bill, calling for Government seizure and operation of vital war industries...
...money from you and even you don't get it all back. All you need to do is look at these big buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue to realize that. We take your shirt and give you a little piece of the shirttail. Then you go back home waving it and shouting 'Look what Uncle Sam gave...
...school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion and brood mares. Sometimes it is warm and there are good "vittles"; sometimes it is cold as a dead snake...