Word: coats
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...coat was off. His tie hung low under the unbuttoned collar of his soft shirt, but he had not rolled up his sleeves. His one companion was Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, who snatched the latest "takes" from the thumping tickers, put them before the President without a word, as fast as he finished charting the latest tally. Re enjoyed...
...resigned from his latest post as Regional Director of the Wages and Hours Division to bring the representation of the 9th District up to date. His views are those of the relief and reform measures passed by the present administration. But he is not a rubber-stamp, not a coat-tail rider. He is a man of independent and forward-looking mind, the type for which there is a need in the national legislative halls. Two years ago, he failed in his first campaign to carry a strongly Republican district by the narrow margin of only 1800 votes. Tomorrow...
...chief adult escort for the children, onetime Headmistress Miss Margaret Elizabeth Day of Wycombe Abbey School, told a racking account of the disaster: "I was in my cabin when I heard an explosion. As I seized my coat and life belt, water was entering the cabin. I dashed to the children's quarters and found them still asleep. . . .An officer shouted to the children to hurry on deck, and we started, with the children behaving magnificently. . . .We clambered into a lifeboat but it had shipped much water and its rudder was gone. . . .The children were singing Roll...
...paralysis victim Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr. and Teresa Larkin Snite. Shortly before, Snite came out of the iron lung that has kept him alive for four years, was photographed outside his tank for the first time since his illness (see cut). A chest respirator, concealed under his coat and connected to bellows by a tube, kept him going...
...would "insult" musically sophisticated South Americans. The orchestra played to full houses nearly everywhere. The tour was no picnic for the players, as most of their spare time was spent rehearsing. Stokowski, who took no salary for the tour, complained that enthusiastic South Americans had mobbed him for souvenirs-coat buttons, handkerchiefs, gloves. Only time he lost the Stokowski temper was in Montevideo, where the program carried a biography stating the old libel that his real name was Stokes.* The concert was delayed for half an hour while the offending programs were gathered...