Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tanning, brewing, tragic acting, brought it out boldly. Much of the material deleted from the first published version of the Journal deals with the food the friends were served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell and other admirers. He said that linen showed dirt better than silk and "he had often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen. The first published version of the Journal lets it go at that, with Boswell's comment that...
...sacrificial goat for, of all people, the Class of 1911 to pile on their own abysmal mediocrities. I am not now, and never have been a member of that dismal class. Thank God, I am 1910, and I suggest that if 1911 wants to wash its own very dirty linen in public, it at least abstain from splashing its cleaner neighbors...
...group of financiers who back Major Robertson is headed by Washington's famed Laundryman George ("Long Live Linen") Marshall, whose other sporting venture is the Boston Redskins (football). To construct the track in record time they hired Engineer Mark Linenthal, who built Boston's Suffolk Downs horse-race track, physically perhaps the best in the U. S., in less than 60 clays. Last week Engineer Linenthal's job, started in June, was practically finished...
...Pullman sections or walked up & down the corridor between the lavatories at the rear and the private compartment held by two of their number just aft of the cockpit. Presently the stewardess set up small tables in each section, served a hot seven-course dinner with regular silverware, crockery, linen. Some three hours later, near the first stop, at Memphis, the stewardess made up the first berth for the first sleepy passenger. By the time the airliner had left Memphis, droned on toward its second stop at Dallas, its third at Tucson, all 14 passengers were stowed away...
Meantime in Topeka, Alf Landon had been up at 5 a. m. Not stopping to shave, he put on a white linen suit with unaccustomed vest, swallowed his breakfast, hurried downtown to meet his agricultural experts. First hitch in his plan for an unobtrusive progress to Des Moines was the presence of four carloads of newshawks and photographers set to trail him. Three times along the 270-mile way the procession stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most...