Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the market. Lead and zinc followed along. Typical of the increase in trading was the excitement in Manhattan's Raw Silk Exchange where trading reached almost 4.000 bales a day after being at 80 a few weeks ago. Startled pages and clerks hurried to put their summer linen-suits on a fortnight ahead of time. In Tokio, Japanese bears talked of harakiri. On the Coffee & Sugar Exchange, Manhattan, coffee continued its recent rise which had begun to die out; sugar started its first rally in months. Some $25,000,000 was added to the value of sugar supplies...
...Shute, who placed fourth in the Open two years ago; he gave the youngest British player, 25-year-old Bert Hodson, the worst beating of all, eight up and six to play. The U. S. team needed one more match and got it when its captain, Walter Hagen, a linen hat pulled down on the back of his thick neck, pursued by a small boy with an armful of American flags to show how far ahead he was, finished four up over Charles Whitcombe after 33 holes. When the last scores were posted, the U. S. had won, 9 matches...
...Omaha mortician who put away the remains of Franklyn R. Rees after dark had excellent authority for his ceremony (TIME, April 27). Matthew records (XXVIII-57) that the "even was come" when Joseph of Arimathaea begged the body of Jesus from Pilate, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb. John records (XIX-39) that Nicodemus came to the body of Jesus ''by night" with myrrh and aloes and only thereafter was it buried in the sepulchre...
...London General Pershing met George V,? was ceremoniously received by high officials. Moving on to Paris (June 13), he began a round of official receptions, dinners, calls, parties and conferences that seriously distracted him from his job. The plate, the linen, the menu and the service at the £lysee Palace moved him to exclaim: "Nowhere are such things done so well as at the palace of the President...
...slant-chinned young woman with a keen eye, a quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...