Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replaced body inside which is a trigger with which Bergen makes the little fellow leer, bow, grimace. He has a standin, used in cinema work and for some publicity stills; a wardrobe that includes a supply of monocles, two full dress suits, a supply of starchy linen, ten hats size 3½, including several toppers, two berets; a Sherlock Holmes outfit, jockey silks, a cowboy suit, a French Foreign Legion uniform, a gypsy costume ("It's the Gypsy in me"). He wears baby-size shoes, spends $1,000 a year for wardrobe and laundry, is insured...
During last year's bloody purge of "Trotskyists, Fascists, counterrevolutionaries, spies and wreckers," many innocent victims were framed by stool pigeons, police agents and prosecutors anxious to build up their reputations for zeal and vigilance. Communist Russia, unlike Nazi Germany, washes much of its dirty linen in public and last week characteristically made public the weirdest abuses of the purge...
Many a brawny fisherman felt like a minnow last week as he read about the feat of a handsome Miami girl named Frances Laidlaw. With a 3-ounce bait-casting rod and a small bait-casting reel which held 85 yards of No. 6-thread linen line-about the same tackle appropriate to sporty bass fishing-loa-lb. Frankie Laidlaw had landed a tarpon weighing...
Delegates wore linen suits, shorts, sandals and open shirts to a garden party at Parliament House-which reporters called the "most informal" in Australian history-but sweat ran down their faces. When a cooling shower fell on the party, the change was too much for Scientist Ernest Clayton Andrews, past president of the congress. He was found unconscious in a rain puddle, hospitalized...
...simple formula: spectacular football and smart showmanship concocted in the right proportions by their Big Chief, George Preston Marshall. Big Chief Marshall has always done things with a flourish. When he inherited his father's laundry 20 years ago (at 22), he in vented the slogan "Long Live Linen," splashed it all over Washington, dressed his delivery boys in blue-&-gold livery, soon seemed to have a branch on almost every street corner and was washing the fanciest sheets and dressiest shirts in town...