Word: overcoatless
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...will look like no other city anywhere. The whole downtown area will be roofed over so that residents can enjoy an overcoatless climate all year round. Electricity for the air conditioning might come from a municipal power plant that burns garbage in pollution-free furnaces. As for the people who live outside the city center, they will be able to shop either by cable TV from home, or else drive to automated highways that will whisk their cars to downtown parking lots that are a short, pleasant stroll from the stores. Or if people prefer to ride, there will...
...operations to his three sons-William Jr., Howard and Thomas-but he still keeps a firm hand on the stick. Up before 7 every day, he walks the mile from his small home to the company's offices in Lock Haven. Pa., hatless and overcoatless in all weather. Though he no longer singlehanded lifts Cubs off the ground, a feat he once liked to perform to amaze onlookers, he often pauses at the production line to lend a hand in hoisting a wing into position. He is dead set against liquor, tobacco, tea and coffee...
...Overcoatless, hatless, and blanketless, he and his peers may have braved the arctic winters of Massachusetts in their time. But surely they would bestir themselves to shake the snow from their locks and laps...
...York, the city that awakened in the autumn, when "the shops were slices of honeycomb full of honey" and when "the boys came from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...
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