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Professor Young went on to say that added to these causes of congestion in the Bureau, there has been a shortage of the special paper stock used for government notes. Instead of 100 per cent linen paper formerly used, the Treasury has had to resort to cotton paper stock. Money printed on this inferior paper deteriorates rapidly in circulation, and when sent into Washington to be replaced cannot be successfully laundered and reissued as could be the higher grade linen paper...
Truth-in-Fabric. Passage of the proposed bill which would require the labeling of wool fabrics with a statement of the percentage of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton, linen, silk which each contains...
...Manhattan, Louis Sherry's restaurant is?well, Sherry's, something the same as Claridge's in London. Sables and silks go in to Sherry's; plenty of blue blood, too, and real diamonds. The carpets are lush and silent underfoot, the waiters obsequious, the linen snowy, the crystal sparkling...
...also many rare and valuable pieces of Colonial art. First among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...
...Nihil tetigit quod non perturbavit*. But, as The Westminster Gazette said: "Lord Curzon could not have returned to the Foreign Office. His role is to speak fraternally with foreign kings; and there are so few left that it is as well to lay him aside in purple and fine linen...