Word: linens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students who deliver for the Gordon Linen Service last night reached agreement with the directors of the Harvard Student Agencies over a pay cut they received several weeks...
Kozol carefully jots down every sentimental object you associate with discovery. In Maine, it was "great plaid comforters and wooly blankets and white flannel sheets"; in Cambridge, it was the landlady who "did our linens for us and brought them up in a wicker basket"; in Barcelona, it was the linen and "a mountain breeze wafted the curtains into the room." The talk is violently expressive, sometimes so hysterical that lines, such...
...also house executive offices (hence the switchboard), are used primarily for two "sacred ordinances": "marriage for eternity" and "baptism of the dead" (for which the London Temple has a massive font supported by twelve bronze oxen). Couples marrying for eternity first disrobe (hence the locker rooms), dress in white linen (the powder rooms), visit a small auditorium (Celestial room No. 1) to see slides showing "where we came from, why we are here, where we are going, and the laws which must be obeyed to attain the celestial degree of glory in the Kingdom of God." From there they move...
...Barlow told it to the police, she had returned to their Bradford home at lunch time from the laundry where she worked, done some housework, and gone to bed right after tea. At 9:20 p.m., Barlow said, he found she had vomited in bed, so he changed the linen. She took off her sweat-soaked pajamas and went to take a bath. He dozed. At 11:20 he awoke, found her in the tub, drowned. He pulled the plug and, said he, tried artificial respiration to no avail...
...company was 65, and the citizens of Flint, Mich, gathered to do him honor. As General Motors' Harlow Curtice waited in the wings of Flint's Industrial Mutual Association auditorium, an orchestra played You, Gee, But You're Wonderful, You, and colored balloons floated above the linen-covered tables. Then up stepped Curtice, the very model of a modern American optimist, with some cheery predictions for the future. Said Curtice, who has been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars (v. an estimated...