Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...knew how hard it was even to persuade my husband he needed a new coat, you wouldn't expect me to fetch him here. I wish you had my worries...
Most impressive figure in the Senate, Webster, 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs., with coarse black hair and glowing eyes, always wore a blue coat with brass buttons. His fame was international. When he visited England he was lionized, called "the Great Western." After an audience with sprightly young Queen Victoria, Webster pronounced her "intelligent and agreeable." Practical farmer and lover of the country, Webster was a first-rate angler. He thought his success due "to careful and thorough fishing of the difficult places which others do not so fish." Once out shooting he peppered a stranger by mistake...
Following the general trend, Lowell House has recently been decorated with four ornamental shields, two, representing the coat of arms of the Lowell family, on either side of the central gateway, two Harvard shields on the two extremities of the building which face Gore Hall...
...Habsburg formality guests went in to dinner "according to the Spanish Court rules of precedence." With new Habsburg economy, they fared frugally on fish, meat, fruit, coffee. Next day aristocrats returned to the castle where they found Otto standing by his mother. He was dressed in a cutaway coat, wore white kid gloves this time. One by one they kissed his right hand, swore fealty to the new Head of the House of Habsburg. In the castle chapel Monsignor Seydel, former court chaplain in Vienna, pro nounced a benediction, sang a Te Deum...
...color, costume and bearing, in the lines of some of their ascetic, sensitive faces they were the ones who seemed to be the superior race. Beside them the pallid little Englishmen dressed in the dull sobriety of bank clerks were like subordinate assistants. Even King George in morning coat minus the accustomed white carnation in his buttonhole, was more like a company director than a monarch...