Word: linens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before actually closing the Holy Door, the Pope immersed his blessed trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another...
...garments have risen to the dignity of clothes, they have been ornaments first, and conveniences second; and if they fail in their first function, modern men can console themselves with the reflection that men in general would be still homelier in a state of nature. Clothes, whether of starched linen or silk padded with bran are the masculine defense against exposure as a two-legged animal without feathers; and so long as one can keep the skeleton in a more or less endurable closet, innovations looking to the trifling detail of comfort will always meet with a cold reception...
Meanwhile in Boston. Joe Wong, laundry Tongster, was shot down over his shirts and soiled linen. Police Captain Goodwin threatened to have Boston's Chinatown condemned and destroyed by the Board of Health and Building Commissions, and to undertake deportation proceedings in his bailiwick...
...Brooklyn, one Wong Low, Chinese laundryman, was harassed by a gang of rowdy youths who threw stones into his windows, pounded on his doors when he slept, tossed garbage upon the linen he had just laundered. One day last week they began their activities by nonchalantly stoning him through the open door as he bent his wet yellow face over an ironing board. One of the missiles struck the board. Wong Low screamed; the youths jeered. Chattering Chinese imprecations, Low drew a revolver from his blouse, began to shoot. The boys scattered, but one James Courte, aged 22, dodged into...
...being sought to apply this treatment in manu facture to the paper which is used for money and to change the manner of manufacture so that the greatest tensile strength of bills will be lengthwise instead of sidewise. Experiments are being made with paper of materials other than linen...