Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stuffed shirts are the Royal Commissioners who include Sir Philip ("Now It Can Be Told") Gibbs, humanitarian Editor J. Alfred Spender and antiopium crusading Dame Rachel Crowdy. But British linen is simply not washed amid cascades of abuse...
...pair light brown pants, no marks, One pinched back light brown coat marked Oppenheim Segal, Boston, One white linen sport suit marked "Made in England," Gibbons Co, Bermuda, one white linen suit Marked Henry C. Lytton & Co. One white linen sports suit unmarked...
...drug stores and groceries were thrown into a political panic. Hearings were held at the Capitol and self-righteous witnesses on both sides of the issue beat their breasts and shouted their convictions. But up to this week nothing really happened because Congress was too busy washing other dirty linen...
...dull morning last fortnight brokers on the New York Cotton Exchange were getting ready to take off their linen office coats and go out to lunch. Suddenly for no apparent reason one trader sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse...
...scheming brain-workers hold all the rest of us at bay? Are we any more inured to squeaks than they are? No, this thing must be nipped in the bud before we find Housemasters stealing everyone's furniture for their own apartments! The Vagabond proposes to wave this dirty linen from every housetop in Cambridge until the overweening outrage is set aright and men can again study in Widener with some degree of dignity and confidence...