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...wagon loaded with good books. He carried a quill pen stuck in his hat, an inkhorn in his lapel, and his fiddle on the wagon seat beside him. "He stopped now and then at a pond or a stream to wash his shirt and take a bath, suspending his linen to dry on the frame of the wagon...
...their striped awnings, although they closed during the street fighting. The supply of painted filles seemed ample to accommodate all soldiers interested in amour. In the Rue Scribe the American Express office still had its familiar big sign on the roof. The hotels were comfortably appointed, with plenty of linen and blankets, even satin quilts...
...scaly insect, less than half an inch long, is an old inhabitant of forests, where it nests under stones and in the bark of dead trees. But it has recently migrated to the city in prodigious numbers because of its fondness for a modern product: rayon. It also likes linen, starched cotton, flour. Unlike the moth, which feeds slowly, the silverfish is a ravenous eater, can make lacework of a shirtfront in a few hours. It is also very hard to starve out ; a well-stuffed silverfish can go as long as ten months without food. Recently an entomologist, having...
...next day the visitors began arriving, passing through the front porch and the tile-floored vestibule, over the well-worn, plum-colored rug in the Victorian living room, out onto the spacious back lawn. Underneath a rose arbor the Senator, in an ice-cream-colored linen suit, shook hands at least 3,000 times, flatteringly remembering many a first name. At nightfall people were still coming; lights were strung over the arbor and the reception went on. It was one of the biggest nights in Independence since 1834, when town roughs burned down nearly 300 Mormon houses...
...probability was that there would be no public airing of the Pearl Harbor linen until after the November election. Attorney General Francis Biddle handed down a convenient legal opinion that fore cast an indefinite delay. Ruled Biddle: because Admiral Kimmel and General Short have waived the two-year statute of limitations, they can be court-martialed whenever the Army & Navy get around to it, regardless of Congressional deadlines...