Word: frocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though this job-roster is certainly impressive, yet by contrast with Massachusetts, New York or Ohio it is scarcely more than the black frock of the priest to the scarlet of Cardinals...
...reached the Ritz (in a fur trimmed coat of beige and green velvet with a close fitting hat) than she sallied forth again to the establishments of Patou and Redfern (in a regal purple hat exactly matching a long swishing cloak). Behind stepped Princess Ileana, demure in a blue frock, a leopard fur clasped about her throat, a small tan silk...
including a frock coat and silk hat. PATRONIZE the best hotels. USE BUSINESS CARDS and stationery...
...President stood in the Blue Room with Secretary Kellogg by his side. The doors flew open. Flanked on the one side by J. Butler Wright, second Assistant Secretary of State, and on the other side by Woolmar F. Bostrom, M. E. & P. from Sweden, a tall figure in a frock coat advanced toward the two little men waiting. The stooping little man with white hair, turned to the little man with the wry face and exclaimed: "Your Excellency, may I present His Royal Highness Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane, Crown Prince of Sweden?" ¶ Animated conversation ensued. Five minutes later...
Lord Chesterfield gave his name to a cigaret; Robert Burns to a cigar. English royalty brought no action because the name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...