Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Linen damask & Burano Point...
When Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's troublemaking Spectator declared for a free college press, his resolution was snowed under. Several scholarship-holding editors leaped to their feet to defend a college's right, through faculty censorship, to keep "its dirty linen from being washed in public." Similarly swamped was a resolution by Student President Sara Mentschekoff of Hunter that R. 0. T. C. funds be diverted to general educational activities...
...from a fashionable harness and leather-goods business. He bought the third automobile ever imported into Britain, built up a private collection of pipes second only to that in the British Museum. After the turn of the century when the harness business dwindled, his shop became "Dunhill Motorities." selling linen dusters, leather breeches, goggles, veils and gauntlets to motor-minded lords & ladies. In 1905, he sold out his Dunhill Motorities with its slogan of "Everything But the Car" to concentrate on his hobby of tobacco blending...
...linen closet will be sacrificed this week because the Lowell House Committee needs permanent quarters...
...Friday, 6:30 a. m. you will be awakened by waiters bringing breakfast. . . . Do not bring more than two extra suits of clothes-one will be sufficient. Six changes of linen will be plenty. We will have overnight pressing service four of the five nights we will be away from home. . . . Not necessary to carry a dinner coat. With these instructions in their pockets, 13 of the Administration's more festive set flew out of Washington to Atlanta. Aboard the plane were Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor. Director for Air Regulation Vidal, Richard Roper...