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Word: undershirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bacco!" swore Boxer Carnera, "I have never fought in an undershirt and I never will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Shirt, No Fight | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...ladies! But if the Prince wants it, all right with me. Here you?" He turned to a second, "Get me an undershirt. Try and get one that will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Shirt, No Fight | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...tickets on the railroad to Moscow. There were 13 of us in the car including a Russian general. We thought he was a porter and tipped him for getting us tea. My dear, how could we tell? All he had on was a pair of pants and an openwork undershirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviets Prefer Brunettes | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...only be reached by a wheezing, blunt-nosed government steamer from dusty Mazatlan. Armed with dark glasses and a large cotton sun umbrella, Newsman Maier took this steamer, chugged out to Maria Madre, the largest island. There he found Mother Concepcion, a grave, deep-voiced, slightly masculine woman, knitting undershirts. Breathlessly he told her of the end of Mexico's religious troubles. Mother Concepcion laid down her undershirt, smiled composedly. She was "full of faith in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: At Three Marys | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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