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...Matthews] is reported to be so dissatisfied with the work of Manhattan laundries that he sends his soiled linen home every week to England...
Brazil's Foreign Minister, Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, one of the biggest businessmen in São Paulo, owner of vast coffee plantations, a student of economics and diplomacy, the kind of man who wears comfortable and badly wrinkled linen suits, is not interested in social functions and rides to his office in full state behind a chauffeur and a liveried footman...
...unique on the Anglo-U. S. stage, who can read a line like "God, man, haven't you any tect?" as if it were a minute masterpiece of wit, and who is reported to be so dissatisfied with the work of Manhattan laundries that he sends his soiled linen home every week to England...
...tanning, brewing, tragic acting, brought it out boldly. Much of the material deleted from the first published version of the Journal deals with the food the friends were served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell and other admirers. He said that linen showed dirt better than silk and "he had often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen. The first published version of the Journal lets it go at that, with Boswell's comment that...
...Pullman sections or walked up & down the corridor between the lavatories at the rear and the private compartment held by two of their number just aft of the cockpit. Presently the stewardess set up small tables in each section, served a hot seven-course dinner with regular silverware, crockery, linen. Some three hours later, near the first stop, at Memphis, the stewardess made up the first berth for the first sleepy passenger. By the time the airliner had left Memphis, droned on toward its second stop at Dallas, its third at Tucson, all 14 passengers were stowed away...