Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...corridor and nine elderly gentlemen in black robes file out and across and into another room. A moment later they emerged in a dim-lit semicircular room, took their places in nine black high-backed chairs on a raised platform. A handsome young man in a cutaway coat cried: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting, God save the United States and this Honorable Court." The 142nd term of the Supreme Court had begun...
...Henry Ford," reported the Associated Press, "did not conceal their deep emotion." But the Machine beckoned. Leaving the world's thriftiest? village behind, Mohammed went directly to Cologne. There, surrounded by German businessmen to whom his words are as the Koran, Mr. Ford peeled off his coat, vigorously laid the cornerstone of his first manufacturing factory on the European continent.? The historic moment was exactly high noon. Tapping thrice upon the stone, Henry Ford said...
...laughed. Jimmy Thomas had merely sat gaping. Several ushers rushed the young man out of Guildhall, still shouting "Youth! Youth!" He told reporters that he is one Herbert Gervers. Such is British tolerance that he was not arrested, was even permitted to re-enter Guildhall to get his coat, hat and stick from the cloakroom, finally swaggered off into the night, immaculate...
Harvard's outlook is national. The cosmopolitan easterner little realizes how widely the dinner coat is unfamiliarized. A dozen years ago I hunted out an old dress suit for a party, and with a simple cloth mask passed totally unrecognized among a small group of western neighbors to whom I was as well known as the local postmaster...
...Rosie was old, fat, bobbed-haired, but just the same under- neath. On the living room wall was a large photograph of the man with whom Rosie had run away. Said Ashenden, "I wonder what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand. He had a heavy...