Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Patriotic Chinese say that Mr. Chou (pronounced Joe) has few talents and no virtues. He was educated in Japan. He looks like an old-fashioned Chinese scholar, but has the exaggerated manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with...
...story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
...Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat and cap with feathered mercury wings. She wore her jeweled flamingo on her shoulder, diamonds on her ears. She smiled at the cheering crowds from under a nose-length, peekaboo, white-dotted veil. Her husband gaily waved...
Arizona (Columbia), not to be confused with California, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, Wyoming or Little Old New York, is a remnant of pre-War Hollywood economy when a $2,000,000 budget was as commonplace an item in a producer's checkbook as a mink coat for the wife. Needing a fancy jewel to decorate its year's offerings, Columbia allotted it $1,500,000. Producer-Director Ruggles hiked his company off to a location near Tucson, battled weather, dust and sickness last summer until his costs had mounted to $2,250,000. Rival studios, shaving...
Confusion reigned as the first fulldress rehearsal of "Too Much Johnson" got under way last night in Sanders Theatre. Bustling belles in brocades and peacock feathers scurried around the stage, followed by strange creatures, among which was a redoubtable Frenchman dressed in a double-breasted frock coat and wearing a Napoleon III moustache...