Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...last season Argentina underwent an appendectomy, a proceeding dangerous for a dancer none too young. Special care was taken not to cut a muscle and she is just as agile as before. Her great pride this year is the little red ribbon which she wears on every coat, every dress. It is the emblem of the Legion of Honor given her the past summer for her distinguished achievement in art plus her generosity to French charities. She might also be proud of her U. S. schedule this season. Few individual artists are able to draw more than one audience...
Irrevocably smirched seemed Gustav ("Pinochle Gus") Boess, famed Ober-Bürgermeister of Berlin, when, during his tour of the U. S. last year, it appeared that Frau Boess had "bought" a magnificent fur coat for next to nothing from the Sklarek brothers, Berlin clothing contractors to whom fat municipal contracts had been awarded...
...didn't know!" she wept. "G-G-Gustav never knew I had bought the coat, or w-w-what I paid for it, or anything about it! Ooohooo...
...stocky man in a blue coat and peaked cap was in the funeral cortège?Dr. Hugo Eckener. He related a meteorological phenomenon of the disaster night which might account for the R-101 flying close to the ground. As the Graf Zeppelin landed from a flight that same night, barometric pressure fell so suddenly that the Graf Zeppelin's altimeter (on the ground) indicated that she was still 400 ft. in the air. The R-101's navigator might have believed himself 400 ft. higher than he actually...
...Mayflower Hotel in Washington announced that William Jeffries Chewning Jr., young bank clerk who eloped with Margo, daughter of millionaire Senator James Couzens of Michigan would become one of its assistant managers, would report for work daily at 8 a. m. in frock coat and grey trousers, would take up "a receptive post in the main lobby...