shirtsleeves

• “I thought the Right was all about protocol, seeing as how upset many of them were that OUR President was in shirtsleeves in the Oval Office.”

  Republican senator won't meet with Sotomayor

• “But from Albuquerque to Richmond, Virginia, the overall scene is similar: President Obama, standing in shirtsleeves with a cordless microphone, talking to a small crowd of people.”

  NPR: Obama's Backyard Chats Aim To Connect With Voters

• “Ben is in shirtsleeves, Tiffany's in a checked skirt.”

  The Washington Post: Ben Quayle's run for Congress, interrupted by Internet columnist Nik Richie

• “Someone had the sense to call the co-pilot and Ben, still in shirtsleeves and blinking the sleep from his eyes, pushed his way through the crowd.”

  Death at 60,000 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog

• “Taking the stage before 25,000 Iowans, Obama, grinning in shirtsleeves, yelled: “It's good to back in Iowa!””

  Obama in Iowa - Swampland - TIME.com

• “Both were in shirtsleeves and wearing broad grins.”

  On Obama-Biden Chemistry, Clues are Scarce - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

• “The man had a fraternal look on his face; he looked like a kindly neighbor in shirtsleeves on a Sunday afternoon.”

  Whitmore, 1969

• “There'd be some carefully staged photo op of him in shirtsleeves talking at a group of carefully selected, neatly washed and ironed squaddies.”

  The "happy snaps" war

• “One of them was William Faulkner, whom I had never laid eyes on and whom I could only imagine as the farmer in shirtsleeves scratching his arm beside two little white dogs in the celebrated portrait of him taken by Cartier-Bresson.”

  Short Stack

• “A nice man, in shirtsleeves, joking with his staff, of a piece with the man I have seen looking for volunteers to toss a football around with him on the tarmac so he can stretch his legs.”

  In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three)

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