Word: topcoats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the individualistic stores paying no attention to the storekeeper's favorite season, is J. Press, at present in the throes of a giant bargain sale. No holly for J. Press while yet one reduced-price topcoat remains unsold...
Several bottles of liquor, a movie camera, a still camera, a cigarette case, one shirt, one topcoat and a few ties and socks were stolen from the Grays 11-12 suite of four sophomores between 11:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday...
...four business suits, a suit of dinner clothes, two summer suits, two sport jackets, an overcoat, topcoat and raincoat-and you picked them out yourself; your wife seldom if ever shops for your clothes with you. You also own 21 shirts, six pairs of shoes, three hats and 31 ties (but you like only 13 of them). You prefer four-in-hands 10 to 1 over bows...
Judge's Choice. As the little girl had noticed, exhibition Bedlingtons look more like lambs than dogs. Their natural topcoat grows fairly long, but handlers trim it. In their northern English homeland, where the breed originated around 1825, Bedlingtons were anything but lamblike. Tough miners of Bedlington used them to hunt badgers and otters; sometimes they pitted two Bedlingtons together in finish fights for big wagers...
...swollen orange moon, hanging low in the sky like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...