Word: linen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day the visitors began arriving, passing through the front porch and the tile-floored vestibule, over the well-worn, plum-colored rug in the Victorian living room, out onto the spacious back lawn. Underneath a rose arbor the Senator, in an ice-cream-colored linen suit, shook hands at least 3,000 times, flatteringly remembering many a first name. At nightfall people were still coming; lights were strung over the arbor and the reception went on. It was one of the biggest nights in Independence since 1834, when town roughs burned down nearly 300 Mormon houses...
...probability was that there would be no public airing of the Pearl Harbor linen until after the November election. Attorney General Francis Biddle handed down a convenient legal opinion that fore cast an indefinite delay. Ruled Biddle: because Admiral Kimmel and General Short have waived the two-year statute of limitations, they can be court-martialed whenever the Army & Navy get around to it, regardless of Congressional deadlines...
From time to time live lice in a linen bag were dipped into the tin: if they lived, logs were added to the fire. Later, bread ovens and even rooms, heated from outside, were used for the same purpose. To prevent clothes from catching fire, paper slips were used as indicators: if they toasted black the temperature was too high; if yellow, just right...
...game: two U.S. soldiers showed up at a farmhouse, carrying a dead, half-plucked chicken, told the sympathetic farm wife that it was a long time since they had had chicken "like mother used to fix." She cooked the chicken for them, served it on her best china and linen with vegetables, cake and precious butter of her own. After the boys had uttered their profuse thanks and departed, she found that the chicken had been taken from her own henhouse...
Alarm Burglar. In Yonkers, N.Y., a burglar ransacked a house's silver, linen and other valuables, made off with a single prize : the alarm clock...