Word: undershirt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them, a hundred yards or more apart, and as we came closer we could see that they were men and that they were dead. They were bobbing up and down in the water with their arms stretched out ridiculously straight and stiff. We could see a V of white undershirt at their necks and the ripples breaking over the toes of their brogans...
Yehudi Menuhin, back in Manhattan from a Latin American concert tour, recalled playing for an hour in his undershirt in broiling Trinidad, mastering some short-haired music for a concert at the Army base in San Juan. The shorthair number was St. Louis Blues. "I practiced and I got pretty good," he said. He played it on his Guarnerius instead of the Strad, because the former "had a more earthy, a more contralto quality...
...possessions, four years of Harvard, and 25 years of beating the living hell out of my insides with bad hooch and bad food." Joe professes never to be without his "three Hs" - homelessness, hunger, hangovers. On winter nights he sports a layer of newspapers between his shirt and undershirt. He is 5 ft. 4, weighs 95 lb., and trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years ago he began a mysterious work- An Oral History of Our Time - a chronicle composed entirely of chance conversations on the Bowery and elsewhere. He has been working-on it ever since...
...accuser but apparently a fearless man. Witnesses for Husband Jack Dempsey testified that they had rushed with him into a Los Angeles apartment ("Mr. Dempsey leaned against the door and it went down") and found red-headed wife Hannah in blue pajamas, Woodall in pajama trousers and undershirt. A detective testified that, when Mrs. Dempsey asked her husband what he was doing there, Mr. Dempsey's reply was: "I'm following you and that rat, and you're a no good rat yourself, running around with a rat like that, and me out trying to defend...
...Fourteenth Air Force and a U.S. fighter squadron team opened the 1943 baseball season in China. Star performer: 52-year-old Pitcher (and Major General) Claire L. Chennault. Dressed in old cap, undershirt and shorts, he held the fighters in submission, hit three singles and a double, racked up three putouts and an assist, won his game...