Word: linens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiling, handsome Carlos Prio Socarras had heard enough of the returns to know that he would be Cuba's next President. He left the Havana headquarters of the Auténtico Party, hustled home to change his guayabera (sport shirt) and slacks for a white linen suit. Then he rode off to the presidential palace in a horn-tooting, placard-plastered motorcade...
...blew fuel from a drum into his tank, the precious seconds ticked away. Before his tank was full, Duke roared back into the race. About 86 laps later, while battling for the lead, Duke Nalon was caught by the nightmare that has haunted motorists since the day of the linen duster...
...help me, the red-bearded Puerto Limon garrison commander was a classmate of mine at the University of California. (All three, of course, were Costa Ricans.) California '42 and I celebrated with fresh coconut juice, remarking that you certainly meet the most unexpected people in insurrections." James A. Linen...
...self-declared exception was the U.S.'s small, intense Muriel Draper,* noted dilettante whose salons in London and Manhattan were once brilliantly haunted by the world's famous, from Henry James to Gertrude Stein. Amid her drably dressed fellow delegates she appeared in a white-stitched black linen Clare McCardell creation. She explained that the dress was really quite inexpensive. (She always-has style, rarely has money.) But Comrades Nina Popova and Zinaida Gurina, Russia's loyal daughters, were not noticeably pleased...
...washes things "far faster, far easier, far better." Last week the American Hyalsol Corp., which owns the basic patents for Dreft (as well as for Drene, Shasta, Teel and other cleansers), had an occasion for considering the Dreft slogan. It was accused of having its closets full of dirty linen. In a Manhattan grand jury indictment, the Government charged that 1) the company was a front for the German soapmakers, Henkel & Cie.; 2) Hyalsol had dodged $500,000 in taxes. It was, trumpeted antitrust lawyers, "one of the largest and most cleverly operated frauds against the Government ever uncovered...