Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London's tailors had another grievance. After studying the clothes represented in the portraits, the editor of Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester...
...whole was a series of experiments in wireless telegraphy. On Mr. Dunninger's back, under his coat, were a transmitting set and four flashlight batteries so carefully concealed that they did not distort his figure. Inside his trouser legs dangled antennae. In his pocket was a telegraph...
...Hoover visit (TIME, Dec. 24), but the sudden and epochal decision of paunchy, prosperous Argentine males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands of smart, irrepressible Argentines appeared on the streets, in subways, cafes and at bull fights, wearing pajama pants with coats...
...Swope's first job with General Electric (in 1893) was time work. His $1.00 per day lowered the average pay; his present salary boosts it even more powerfully. Four college degrees hang on his wall. If he wishes, three medals may blaze on his coat: The French Legion of Honor, the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, the American D. S. M. As everyone knows, he is the brother of dynamic Herbert Bayard Swope, ex-executive editor of the (New York) World. Both brothers were born in St. Louis, Gerard slightly more than nine years before Herbert. Gerard...
...Chicago, a gunman last week held up Stenographer Mary Johnson, took her purse, coat, beads, dress. Up rattled a taxi. Disrobed, dismayed, Mary stepped in. Said the chivalric chauffeur: "I'm a stickup guy myself, dearie. See these two automatics? But you've had enough for one night-I'll take you home...