Word: linen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cordially, James A. Linen...
...though postwar motorists were gradually becoming horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there were few who did not believe that the traffic evil would soon be corrected. This enormous delusion has been a part of U.S. folklore since the day of the linen duster, driving goggles and the high tonneau...
Included in the long list are Ann Radcliffe dresses at proletariate prices, designed for children after the costume of a lady Ann Radcliffe portrait; kerchiefs stenciled with the college shield; hand-knitted argyle socks; baby booties; painted trays; Radcliffe table linen; chocolates; and game-of-chance equipment...
...James A. Linen...
...Hartford, Conn., owners of 80 antique automobiles donned linen dusters, set out on a 500-mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...