Word: linen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mr. Linen...
Fruits of Labor. Boscaini hurried into a dairyman's light blue linen pants, white coat and shirt, and rushed down. He was too late. A crowd of 200 men was already dividing up his land. On the road stood another 300 expropriators. The band played merrily as a priest blessed the subdivisions, which men with stakes were marking...
...James A. Linen...
...Prague's Manes Kaverna last week, the people sat for hours over a cup of ersatz coffee until night came, and the red, blue and green lights strung in the poplars were turned on; a 15-piece band, trim in white linen jackets (though some musicians omitted neckties), fiddled nostalgia. Prague's current favorite, which was banned during the war as Red propaganda...
Tough of mind, weak of body, he rested when he could, which was not often. His retreat was a modest cottage on Long Island, where he lolled around in a linen cap and pastel-colored beach robe. There, last week, in the small cottage, Sidney Hillman suffered a heart attack and died...