Word: napkined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main drag a mouselike little man turned his palms upward, pointed to the blisters and said: "That's what I get for having to bury my garbage in the backyard." A well-dressed young office worker tried to rub the dirt from her nylons with a paper napkin and snapped: "I wish they'd clean the streets...
...scene, a corner table downstairs at "21." TIME Correspondent John Doe nervously approaches Gibbs, who is deeply involved in a plate of pompano and a bottle of Berncasteler Doctor '34. . . . Doe asks Gibbs what he's going to say in his review. Gibbs wipes his mouth with napkin, stares at Doe somewhat frigidly. Doe says, "Will it be something like, Quote I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which...
Then they bowed. As the Americans filed out, Mayor Kihara handed each of them a New Year's gift-a tablecloth and napkin set-from the "City of Hiroshima...
...beribboned, dignified pamphlet, promising heavenly & earthly rewards. (Some of the earthly ones: getting one's, name inscribed in a "golden book," on a hospital plaque, or in a stained-glass window.) At last the volunteer committees hold a "kickoff luncheon." A pamphlet is snuggled under every napkin, and the drive is launched...
...paper napkin is .003 inches thick and such napkins are piled up, starting with one, then adding two, then adding four and doubling the new batch 32 times in all, will the pile finally be one foot high? Or will it be as high as the ceiling? Or will it be as high as the Empire State Building...