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...apartment house with maid service was ordered to change linen twice weekly, since the Government considered one weekly change not enough...
...doctor's clothes should be good (Boggs sometimes prescribes suits at $150 apiece), and pressed, his linen white, his hoes shined. The office should be bright not too bright, stocked with fresh magazines and flowers. Sometimes all a lagging practice needs is an interior-decorating...
...still can't believe it's true; not having to make up our bunks except on change-of-linen day, only two of us to a room, adequate closet space, the beautiful laundering Mrs. Thomas does for us, and our wonderful Mrs. Rose Chisholm to whom we're all always indebted...
...Army, waving aside all advice, had stubbornly insisted on buying the Stevens. Cost: $6,000,000 (its original cost in 1927: $28,000,000). Then, in a fabulous five-day sale, the Army had auctioned off almost all the internal fixings of the Stevens-pots, pans, bowling alleys, beds, linen and spittoons (TIME, March 29). Realized from the sale: almost $600,000 (replacement value: over $2,000,000). The auction came just 90 days before the Army decided to sell the Stevens. Yet for only $3,000 a month in storage charges the Army could have held...
Stangest part of the time we've spent here (and that seems to be unanimous) was the period between Friday and Tuesday morning. We relaxed. We drew bed linen. We sang songs over at the student club. We sang songs over at the student club. We relaxed. We drew case books. We asked the senior class of midshipmen about the case books. Then our relaxation was over. They only laughed...