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...period"). For these new patients he invented an ailment named "asthenia" ("which means no more than weakness or general debility"), and soon his anti-asthenia injections were the toast of the town. "Again and yet again my sharp and shining needle sank into fashionable buttocks, bared upon the finest linen sheets. I became expert, indeed superlative, in the art of penetrating the worst end of the best society...
...James A. Linen...
Since that time, Cobina Sr. has aired the linen of high society in a column for the Hearstpapers. She has also given much of her time to pondering such questions as "After materialism, what?" and to deciding what, after all, life adds up to. She finds that she agrees pretty much with English Writer Thomas Burke (1886-1945), when he said, "All living is hunger, without hunger we perish...
Besides having to face the greater fees, the Wellesley girl will have to care for her own room, do more "waiting on" and bell duty, and supply her own linen. Miss Clapp said that these economics are necessary in order to prevent still another rise...
Duck Call. In Cleveland, Edward Annen, manager of a linen rental supply firm, glanced at the name and serial number inside a pair of white duck pants a customer had returned by mistake, excitedly telephoned his ex-Seabee son that the pants he lost on Okinawa during the 1945 typhoon had turned...