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  • Working the campaign trail in shirt-sleeves and jeans, they're tossing off their neckties—and with them, a century of tradition.

    Candidates Figure What Voters Need From Them Is a Good Dressing Down Elizabeth Williamson 2011

  • Especially on winter evenings after tea, when the fire glows in the open range and dances mirrored in the steel fender, when Father, in shirt-sleeves, sits in the rocking chair at one side of the fire reading the racing finals, and Mother sits on the other with her sewing, and the children are happy with a pennorth of mint humbugs, and the dog lolls roasting himself on the rag mat.

    Intimate History 2010

  • Olimpiad Solomonovich Ioffe, who chaired the civil law department in the 1970s, lectured in shirt-sleeves, smoking and joking with his listeners, deliberately ignoring the usual protocol.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Casual clothes may also help the candidates reach young people disillusioned with that other shirt-sleeves candidate President Barack Obama .

    Candidates Figure What Voters Need From Them Is a Good Dressing Down Elizabeth Williamson 2011

  • But that very exasperation showed how surprising it was to see shirt-sleeves on the streets.

    Record-breaking weather, whether in coolness or warmth 2011

  • We have an ad that was running out here from the incumbent governor, Chet Culver, who very earnestly standing in shirt-sleeves and says that he made some mistakes, but they're honest mistakes.

    Political Attack Ads Work, But Are They True? 2010

  • A girl in rolled shirt-sleeves gazed at me amused.

    Potsdamer Strasse #2 Jasoni 2011

  • South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, in shirt-sleeves and wearing a Detroit Tigers hat, told an audience of applauding GM workers that the new trade pact would boost jobs in the U.S. without threatening existing jobs in America.

    GM's Small-Car Plan Matthew Dolan 2011

  • We have an ad that was running out here from the incumbent governor, Chet Culver, who very earnestly standing in shirt-sleeves and says that he made some mistakes, but they're honest mistakes.

    Political Attack Ads Work, But Are They True? 2010

  • But that very exasperation showed how surprising it was to see shirt-sleeves on the streets.

    Record-breaking weather, whether in coolness or warmth 2011

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