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...available, and carried no food except some meal and corn into the wilderness with him. In winter he wore three or four wool shirts at a time; to keep them clean enough to suit him, he merely rotated them from skinside to outside, let the elements launder them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Mountain Man | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...pretty funny. The rake (Rex Harrison) is an amiable, Noel Cowardish sort of cad whose inability to take anything very seriously causes no end of trouble to himself, his employers, his family, his chums and his ladyfriends. As played by Actor Harrison and manipulated by writers-directors-producers Frank Launder and Sydney Gilliat (one of Mr. Rank's brighter young production teams), the rake's fast, downhill progress is topnotch fun with a pleasant British accent. The fun holds up, and so does the picture, until all the actors suddenly wipe the smiles off their faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...reduction in the size and number of items worn by women and the change in the nature of the materials . . . made it fairly easy for women students to launder them in the bathrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That's Where Their Money Goes | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...representing the Harvard employees, I have discovered that the statement in Wednesday's Crimson, "dining hall employees are paid full union wages . . .", is false. According to Mr. Stefani, full union wages for waitresses are $12. a week with food and tips. Union regulations require that uniforms be supplied and laundered by the employer. Also the cleaning of wood-work is not done by union waitresses. In contrast Harvard pays $12 a week without tips, supplies uniforms but does not launder them, and requires them to do a certain amount of scrubbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/18/1937 | See Source »

...incredible that Actor Matthews could not find a single laundry in Manhattan (including the Champion, which boasts of a large theatrical clientele) to launder his linens satisfactorily. This seems even more unbelievable, since a number of British laundry operators visit New York annually to study American methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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