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...atmosphere of Rumania was best typified by the "Old Excellencies." There were two of these strange creatures in the lobby of the Athene Palace, "a kind of token force of a large army of some 700 living Rumanian former cabinet ministers, and of innumerable diplomats and generals." Wearing white linen spats and monocles, they sat at their table in the lobby from noon until midnight, studying "women's points." One Old Excellency had "the face of a sick greyhound." The other, "grey-haired and heavy-eyed," had a pointed beard like that of the late Rumanian premier, Ion Bratianu...
Canvas, always imported for U.S. artists from Ireland and Belgium, is the biggest problem. With Belgian linen cut off, prices of first-class material are up nearly 300%, and most artists are making shift with domestic cotton substitutes. (The U.S. does not grow the right kind of flax for high-grade linen canvas.) Some artists are experimenting with beaverboard, shirt cardboard, many building-board substitutes (like Masonite...
...persuasions by advertising men had almost convinced the U.S. citizen that he had halitosis, dandruff, fallen arches, falling hair, worn-out furniture, out-of-date bathrooms, obsolete washing machines and ineffective tooth paste in his inferior home, at his side an inferior wife whose hands were dishpan-red, whose linen was tattletale-grey, and who would be left in want when he was run over by a car with inferior brakes...
...Queen Victoria's yard-wide linen chemises and a pair of her stockings went on sale in Manhattan for British War Relief. ∙∙On tiptoe stood King George (5 ft. ii in.) in London, stretched up, pinned a Distinguished Flying Cross on 6 ft. 7 in. Flight Lieutenant Roger Hunter. ∙∙ Naval Reserve Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. reported for active duty in Boston, was assigned to public relations work. ∙∙ Private Abner Powell Jr., Joe Louis' sparring partner, arrived at Camp Upton, L.I., sighed happily: "I'm kind of glad to get away from...
...done much to take the snarls out of Air Corps administration. In sleek, double-breasted linen suits (usually blue), monogrammed white shirts, Yale-blue ties, he works seven days a week when at the War Department. Seldom does he get a weekend at home on Long Island with his two children and his wife (the former Adele Quartley Brown, whom he married after he returned from World...