Word: linens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...torrid June weather. Therefore, as the vast auditorium, seating 25,000, rose on the ruins of what had been Houston offices and stores, thoughtful citizens planned how to beguile northern Democrats into thinking the Houston climate ideal. They planned: a suggestion to all delegates that Houston fashions will demand linen suits; automatic water coolers as effective as nine melting tons of ice each day (15 Ibs. per delegate per day); a heat-resisting roof; eight large fans delivering hourly 36,000,000 cubic feet of air into the hall...
...telephoned each other. They decided to hire a suite of rooms at the Ritz-Carlton, near the Chrysler headquarters. And there for three days and nights they were alone. Waiters brought them food, awed attendants clean linen...
...mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output of the common loom...
...them could be seen the U. S. flag, draped with elaborate tassels; also the Christian flag, an emblem composed of a red cross on a blue square in a white field. The organ console and the pulpit were in view, as was the communion table covered with a shining linen cloth. The spectators, of whom there were thousands sitting in the balconies, looked up at windows which were illumined by hidden lights. An electric cross was hung in a high arch and in a western balcony, near the invisible organ, sat 65 choristers. This was the opening of the quadrennial...
...best friend is Mortician Mack McMack whom he admires for having installed really fine mortuary apartments which paid for themselves in less than 17 months. The mortuary equipment includes "a pile of nice linen handkerchiefs for the bereaved, all absolutely free . . . and a casket that slides out of the back room into the chapel-drawing room on a little electric trolley, as if by magic . . . thus giving a feeling of awe and mystery...