Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone can recognize the show-off. He is found in clusters, and his natural habitat is the college campus. He enjoys the raccoon coat, the letter sweater, and the old rat-eaten loafers. A battered hat usually adorns his head, and his tie is better hidden than displayed, as it either depicts lewd scenes, or squirts water at unlucky admirers...
...anyone had known what the plump, jittery Negro girl was after as she made her search through New York, it would have been easy enough to spot her and stop her. She was only 4 ft. 10 in. tall, wore a long, bright green coat, a firehouse red skirt, flat-heeled loafers and white bobby-sox. But she moved along in street crowds for days, as unnoticed as a chip borne on a flood, and pushed into hospital after hospital without a challenge...
...walked up to the second floor of the city's big, red brick Lincoln Hospital, and let herself into the incubator room. There was no nurse in sight. She opened an incubator's glass cover, lifted out a tiny, naked Negro baby, and slipped it under her coat. She was back out on the dark streets long before a horrified nurse discovered the loss...
Before long, teachers from all over town were parading their charges through the museum, many for the first time. The kids fondled Daniel Boone's own flintlock, modeled the formal tasseled coat worn by one of the city's founders, pint-sized ("Boy, was he a shrimp!") Auguste Chouteau. As the children listened to the story of St. Louis' great fire of 1849, they clambered over the old fire engine, tried on the old derby-like helmets, shouted through the trumpet megaphones used by the fire vamps...
...times, left Nicholas dying at his desk. Before the salesmen and secretary grasped what had happened, Baker strode out; he walked downstairs to the office of his department head, Professor Paul A. Maxwell, and killed him too. Then he walked calmly across the hall, gathered up his hat and coat, smiled at a faculty member he met as he left the building, and hurried away...