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...hold part of then-produce off the market at harvest time, they will soon get higher returns. Merchants who can procure scarce products are making bigger profits than ever before. One Massachusetts merchant who owns several privateers reports that profits of 100 percent on sugar and 150 percent on linen and paper are "more than common." Jonas Philipps of Philadelphia says that European goods command a profit of 400 percent there...
...provide for the accelerated war, much of Britain's industry has been mobilized. Yorkshire looms are supplying soldiers' uniforms, and Chatham sail-and ropemakers are working overtime to help equip ships for the Atlantic convoys. Other manufacturers throughout the kingdom are equally busy providing linen, shirts and blankets-not to mention muskets and cannon. To feed the Germans, farmers are being asked to grow more cabbages...
...cafe con leche with a roll in his favorite cafe. At that moment two men entered, took out some enormous pistols and shot at the senator. Innocent or guilty, what is certain is that the senator was eating a roll when they killed him, staining his white linen suit with spilled blood and cafe con leche...
...spoofing the follies of polite society. He has had some time to observe these, having fled the hopelessly declasse shores of New York City, his birthplace, to more genteel echelons in Ireland. His first novel, The Ginger Man, instantly revealed an affection for the upper classes and their dirty linen. In creating Sebastian Dangerfield, dissolute hero and impoverished aristocrat, Donleavy unleashed one of the most charming rogues of twentieth century English literature--suave, jaunty, devilishly...
February 11, 1974--It was a strange setting for a major policy declaration. Sitting beneath the ornate crystal chandeliers supposedly expropriated from Eliot House by former Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1877), savoring steak and red wine at tables uncustomarily covered with white linen, several hundred Lowell House residents strained to hear the extemporaneous remarks of the fledgling dean of the Faculty, Henry Rosovsky...