Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consequence of two unfortunate incidents resulting from the actions of gentlemen who obviously do indulge in alcohol than it was before the events occurred? Do these incidents mean that the rest of the students overindulge also? Is it because the publicity has given Harvard a little too much dirty linen all at once...
...portrait of Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., standing with their family in front of their summer home at Seal Harbor, Me. It took three years of intermittent stitching for Mrs." Zorach to finish it. "The difficult thing," she explained last week, "is to get the right sort of linen for them. It must be loosely woven, but strong, and the warp and woof must be even. The wools are not so hard. I used to get mine from an old man down in Greenwich Village. I think he was a fence for stolen goods. . . . Sometimes I dye them myself...
...shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...
...review of the Spanish fleet in civilian grey flannels and a floppy soft hat (TIME, May 16, 1927). Last week loyal British residents of Cannes and officers of the Wishart understood that nothing was amiss when Royal Edward arrived for the inspection wearing rope-soled sandals, grey linen trousers, a brick red shirt, and with sporty, Baltimore-born Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson at his side...
...only trouble was that H. R. H. must salute the quarterdeck of the Wishart on stepping aboard, could, by British Admiralty tradition, do so only with his hat on. Frantically someone produced a white linen one which the Prince brushed impatiently aside. Coaxed Mrs. Simpson: "Davie, dear! Please wear...