Word: linens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Victoria's yard-wide linen chemises and a pair of her stockings went on sale in Manhattan for British War Relief. ∙∙On tiptoe stood King George (5 ft. ii in.) in London, stretched up, pinned a Distinguished Flying Cross on 6 ft. 7 in. Flight Lieutenant Roger Hunter. ∙∙ Naval Reserve Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. reported for active duty in Boston, was assigned to public relations work. ∙∙ Private Abner Powell Jr., Joe Louis' sparring partner, arrived at Camp Upton, L.I., sighed happily: "I'm kind of glad to get away from...
...done much to take the snarls out of Air Corps administration. In sleek, double-breasted linen suits (usually blue), monogrammed white shirts, Yale-blue ties, he works seven days a week when at the War Department. Seldom does he get a weekend at home on Long Island with his two children and his wife (the former Adele Quartley Brown, whom he married after he returned from World...
Here in the hands of the law are the brothers Anthony and William Esposito, bandits and cold-blooded killers who four months ago shot down a linen-firm office manager, raced through the crowded ground floor of Manhattan's big Altman store, and killed a policeman before they were caught near Fifth Avenue (TIME, Jan. 27). At their trial they played mad, one never speaking nor noticing, the other screaming and recklessly banging his head against a table, but a jury swiftly found them guilty of first-degree murder. Still their exhibition was not over...
...noon Fifth Avenue was crowded. Alfred Klausman, middle-aged office manager of a linen firm, walked across the street from his office to the bank on the corner and drew the weekly pay roll...
...thinner than a human hair, strong enough to fold without tearing, tasteless. It must not stick to the lips nor burn faster or slower than tobacco. Before the war the U. S. bought its yearly supply (some $4,000,000 worth) from France, which made the paper from old linen gathered by the ragpickers of Poland, Russia and the Balkans...