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...shuffled through the mass of stripes and polka-dots hanging behind his closet door, came up with a knitted crimson affair, and carefully knotted it between button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint of whiskey. He eased this into the left hand pocket of the coat with the mousy fur collar. "All set," said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

Besides doing the carpentry, the wiring, the painting, the plumbing, and the heating work on the units, the Federal Public Housing Authority throws in with each home a jade-green plastic shower curtain, an ice-box, a porcellain towel rack, an aluminum mailbox, and a two-plate electric stove complete with oven. Everything else is up to the individual, but the University has a limited amount of furniture available for rental...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Harvardevens, Livable but Expensive, Shapes Up as Real Community | 10/18/1946 | See Source »

...book, and it's hard to say which seems older. There is no question which seems pleasanter: the tunes borrowed from Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller and The Serenade are melodious and nicely sung. But they are not quite pleasant enough to offset the damp-towel libretto or save an evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Half-New Operetta | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Summer theatre or not, "Burlesque" is worth anybody's inflation buck, and if you can't make it over to the air-conditioned New England Mutual Hall, buy yourself a Japanese fan, grab a towel, and sit tight till it subways over to Brattle Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

...cool morning. He called his wife, Zula, to get up and get breakfast going. He slipped out of his cotton nightshirt and into shorts, faded blue work shirt, grease-stained overalls and high, heavy shoes. On the back porch he sloshed water on his face, groped for the roller towel. In the next 15 minutes he had milked the cow and got Jack up. Then he went to the small bunkhouse and woke his two harvest hands: 36-year-old Harold Robb and 18-year-old Fay Everett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Frank Anderson's Wheat | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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