Word: topcoats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wonder if I could do it with a paper cup. Yeah, a paper cup. Steady. Whoops! There, easy as anything. Look out. That's too bad. Lucky you got on the old topcoat, Bill. Sure, that'll come out all right. If it doesn't take it over to the Chem lab. Sure they will. They teach you how in Chem A. Ever take that, Bill? Yes, over in Boylston. When we were Freshmen. We used to make salt, too. Twenty-five grams impure they gave you. No, they don't test your stuff. I got nine grams yield...
...different, with no shadow of "resentment," was the seance held by the Committee next day in a ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. Before the Senators arrived, there strode into the room a figure in blue serge and buttoned shoes, carrying a tan topcoat. The figure wore an almost white fedora hat instead of its traditional brown derby that was instantly recognizable, by the flash of gold in the smile, the jaunty salute to the newsgatherers, as Candidate Smith. When the Committee entered, this Candidate, minus fedora and topcoat, put his thumbs in his waistcoat and tilted back...
...professor turned in the doorway, shrugging his shoulders into his topcoat. He smiled at the three section men gathered around the long table with the neat foot-high piles of blue books. His hand was on the knob as he said: "Be kind, gentlemen, but be, ha --ha, not too kind...
...Mayor Walker reached Paris from Rome and flipped off the train in a chocolate crush hat, blue shirt and suit, green and brown tie, beige topcoat and lavender handkerchief dashed with brown and purple...
...their entertainment committees, to think up daily "programs" such as Rotarians enjoy at home only once per week. Each ship was laden with "inexpensive (and expensive) articles to be distributed as prizes." (Rotarians love to play games.) "Among other things sent in," announced The Rotarian (official monthly), "was a topcoat, rather a useful thing to have on an Atlantic trip. Sometimes the evenings are a bit cool and the regular constitutional round the decks has to be a brisk...