Word: linens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brothers came from the East after the War, have been prominent figures in Berlin's night life. Where bands blared loudest, where dimples were deepest, there were the Sklareks. Head waiters understood that the bounteous brothers held valuable contracts from the Berlin municipal government for clothing, uniforms, hospital linen. Unfortunately Sklarek commissions could not keep up with the cost of Sklarek champagne. The Sklareks "arranged" for cash advances to the sum of $2,000,000 from Berlin's municipally operated City Bank...
...Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California, tall Shakespearian scholar, onetime actor, chairman. Said Mr. Shortridge: "We shall treat everybody alike? the tramp and the millionaire. We care not whether he be clothed in rags or purple and fine linen...
...Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) ; next Norman R. Parker, secretary and treasurer of American Brown Boveri Co.; then Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; then S. W. Wakeman, vice president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. No "tramps in purple and fine linen" are these, no "millionaires in rags...
Dropping work at once Dictator Mussolini ordered out his racing Alpha Romeo, donned a linen duster, cap and heavy goggles, drove at breakneck speed 250 miles over especially cleared roads to Donna Rachele. Even then he did not forget the grain. A harvest conference with leading Italian producers had been scheduled for next day in Rome. Brusquely the conferees, including Minister of Economy Alessandro Martelli, were ordered to speed to Forli too. There in the government building hastily swept out for the occasion. Babe & Grain Generalissimo Mussolini continued his fructive campaign, ordered still wider distribution of his famed propaganda poem...
Helen ("Big Helen") Wills, in crisp white linen, crisply set down Mrs. Phoebe Watson...