B.V.D.

And the photographs are wonderful, including a Life magazine shot of Gloria Swanson in 1960, wearing a boa and an evening gown, exultantly throwing her arms up amid the ruins of Broadway's recently demolished Roxy Theatre, and a photograph of garish advertisements (for Diamond Tires, Stewart speedometers and B.V.D. underwear) on Fifth Avenue in 1913, next-door to Andrew Carnegie's mansion -- billboards that today would cause a decorous riot in that landmark-blanketed neighborhood.

Bricks and Mortification 2008

But they just found out about the "B.V.D. shots" that need fixing.

Grand Illusions 2008

After a rather thorough discussion of all the domestic and social aspects of towels she apologized to Babbitt for his having an alcoholic headache; and he recovered enough to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas.

Babbit 2004

His first adornment was the sleeveless dimity B.V.D. undershirt, in which he resembled a small boy humorlessly wearing a cheesecloth tabard at a civic pageant.

Babbit 2004

All cloth used in the manufacture of B.V.D. underwear is made at Lexington.

Drummond's Pictorial Atlas of North Carolina. Albert Y. Drummond 1924

The sorrowful ennui of a ten-hour journey on the B.V.D. _Chemise de fer_ (with innumerable examinations of luggage), while it has kept out the contraband Swiss cheese which is so strictly interdicted, has also kept away the rich and garrulous tourist.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

The B.V.D. trains only leave Strychnine when there is a stern wind, as otherwise the pungent fumes of the cheese carried in the luggage van are very obnoxious to the passengers.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

His first adornment was the sleeveless dimity B.V.D. undershirt, in which he resembled a small boy humorlessly wearing a cheesecloth tabard at a civic pageant.

Babbitt 1922

After a rather thorough discussion of all the domestic and social aspects of towels she apologized to Babbitt for his having an alcoholic headache; and he recovered enough to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas.

Babbitt 1922

After a rather thorough discussion of all the domestic and social aspects of towels she apologized to Babbitt for his having an alcoholic headache; and he recovered enough to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas.

Chapter 1 1922