Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When captured the assassin was of uncouth appearance, ragged of shirt, scrubby of beard. But when he stepped before the microphone, last week, José de León Toral was not only clean shaven, but clad in black sack coat, double-breasted vest, and trousers of smart pin stripe. Speaking deliberately for two full hours, he explained to the caballeros and señoras of the radio audience minutely how and why he assassinated the President-Elect...
...attended the recent International Aero Exhibition at Berlin. No U. S. aircraft were there, only two Whirlwind motors hidden in foreign planes and a picture book of other U. S. motors and machines. General Kincaid was ashamed. "I felt," said he last week, "like turning up my coat collar and slinking away." He noted too that "Germany has 60 cities linked by air transport now. Over this network is maintained a constant fast transport of mail, passengers and freight. No other country in the world has anything to compare with...
Cartoonist Comrade Bill ("William") Cropper sketched Edward of Wales as a chinless pimply youth, resplendent in gold braid, sword, and high boots, parading across Africa upon the bowed backs of blackamoors. Behind H. R. H. tramped a paunchy male, clad in striped trousers and cutaway coat, waving a Union Jack, and representing (according to the communistic caption) the "British Labor Party'' (Socialistic...
David Lloyd George, strode, for the first time in his long life, upon a public race track. He wore a light blue hat, dark blue coat, many-colored bow tie. He seemed happy to see the horses run and lather; but he placed no bets. He, a Welsh Baptist, has long found his strongest support among sections of the British public which frown upon horse racing. Yet he caused more excitement at the track than the horses themselves...
...dress differently here than we do, not that New College is especially fashionable, but everyone there wears a well cut coat and flannel slacks; here the most prominent men make no effort to present a smart appearance...